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glenn mcdonaldJul 19, 2010 4:30 pm 
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Philip KendallJul 20, 2010 5:37 am 
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glenn mcdonaldJul 20, 2010 6:53 am 
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Luke SchubertJul 20, 2010 7:58 am 
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Subject:Re: [Freebase-discuss] countries, administrative divisions...
From:glenn mcdonald (gmcd@itasoftware.com)
Date:Jul 19, 2010 8:06:19 pm
List:com.freebase.freebase-discuss

- I couldn't figure out what the deal is with Luxembourg. It's not typed
/location/administrative_division, as far as I can see in the UI, but a MQL
query that filters out things with /location/administrative_division/country
filters it out. Is MQL seeing deleted properties the UI doesn't show?

Looks like it's a "naked" property (property assertion is there, but not the
type assertion)... the explore view is often helpful for diagnosing situations
like this:

http://www.freebase.com/tools/explore/en/luxembourg

Aha. I should have thought of adding the type to see if that exposed the
property. Sure enough. Deleted, type re-removed. And that explains what happened
to Micronesia and Palau, too. I'd assumed that removing a type would take its
properties with it!

Er, shouldn't it? Why doesn't it?

glenn