23 messages in com.freebase.freebase-discussRe: [Freebase-discuss] countries, adm...| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| glenn mcdonald | Jul 19, 2010 4:30 pm | |
| Jason Douglas | Jul 19, 2010 5:55 pm | |
| glenn mcdonald | Jul 19, 2010 8:06 pm | |
| Tom Morris | Jul 19, 2010 9:52 pm | |
| Iain Sproat | Jul 20, 2010 12:30 am | |
| Kirrily Robert | Jul 20, 2010 12:44 am | |
| Tom Morris | Jul 20, 2010 12:51 am | |
| glenn mcdonald | Jul 20, 2010 4:53 am | |
| Tom Morris | Jul 20, 2010 5:34 am | |
| Philip Kendall | Jul 20, 2010 5:37 am | |
| Christopher R. Maden | Jul 20, 2010 5:37 am | |
| Iain Sproat | Jul 20, 2010 5:57 am | |
| glenn mcdonald | Jul 20, 2010 6:53 am | |
| Philip Kendall | Jul 20, 2010 7:01 am | |
| Paul Houle | Jul 20, 2010 7:34 am | |
| glenn mcdonald | Jul 20, 2010 7:56 am | |
| Luke Schubert | Jul 20, 2010 7:58 am | |
| Shailesh Kochhar | Jul 21, 2010 12:08 am | |
| Paul Houle | Jul 21, 2010 8:03 am | |
| Tom Morris | Jul 21, 2010 8:26 am | |
| evening0star | Jul 21, 2010 9:07 am | |
| Thad Guidry | Jul 21, 2010 10:15 am | |
| evening0star | Jul 21, 2010 10:30 am |
| Subject: | Re: [Freebase-discuss] countries, administrative divisions... | |
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| From: | Christopher R. Maden (cri...@maden.org) | |
| Date: | Jul 20, 2010 5:37:44 am | |
| List: | com.freebase.freebase-discuss | |
Kirrily Robert wrote:
On 20/07/2010, at 12:30 AM, Iain Sproat wrote:
Perhaps a "UN recognized country" type? (using the United Nations as the defining body to avoid disputes about whether, e.g. Taiwan is recognised)
I feel like that type, documented to be "currently recognised only", would be a (rare!) useful bucket type.
I like the idea, too.
Consider also, instead of or in addition to that, a property on Country for recognized-by; it could be the reciprocal of recognizes (also on Country, or on a new type like Diplomatic Entity), or could use a CVT for dates of recognition.
For example, the US didn’t recognize PR China until the 1970s; the US recognizes RO China, but PR China does not; the US recognized Bosnia-Herzegovina before Serbia did.
If a new Diplomatic Entity type is used, then the UN could be one of the recognizers; if not, it would only be other countries.
~Chris
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