Comments on: Really simple Freebase interface

By: Nathan

Nathan — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:49:54 +0000

this looks really useful. i just recently started poking around at freebase, and i’m probably going to start messing around with it more this summer. i imagine your tool will come in handy then

By: mikelove

mikelove — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:17:06 +0000

re: multiple constraints… that would be very cool. For this demo I really wanted to keep it extremely simplistic (plus I’m a javascript novice).

Brendan also had the idea that you could just keep scrolling horizontally thing=>has=>thing=>has=>…

I would love to do some user testing. Google can of course dig into tables for queries like “US population”. Metrics: speed, range of answerable questions, accuracy. that’s a start. Let’s get Dolores Labs on it.

By: Will Moffat

Will Moffat — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:06:03 +0000

Cool, any thoughts on how you could add multiple constraints? (Perhaps similar to the Outlook or Mail rules builder?)

I’m wondering how ‘normal’ people react to the strange phrasing:
thing “Edinburgh” has “Contained by” –> “Scotland”
thing “Oscar Wilde” has “Places lived” –> “County Dublin”

But I guess what counts is not how strange people find it, but how useful they find it. Hmm, what would be the metric?

It would be interesting to set questions and have people answer them using ThingHas, Freebase.com, Powerset, Google, Wikipedia.

By: Kirrily Robert

Kirrily Robert — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:21:01 +0000

Nice! I'd like to feature this on the Freebase blog tomorrow.