what's the usage of the Person class ?
'Person' [1] should generally be avoided. For background, see the
discussion about how to classify subjects like Coco Chanel in [2]. That's
the basis for the note "not for use with P31, instead use Q5 human".
Pretty much all the items that link to 'person' [3] shouldn't.
For fictional characters, the convention is to classify them as 'fictional
character', e.g. as done for Jack Bauer [4]. There are some tricky
knowledge representation issues with fictional entities. For example, how
do we ensure that Harry Potter is not returned in a query for all people
born in London in 1984? The fictional universes project [5] aims to
address problems like that.
1)
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q215627
2)
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Migrating_away_…
3)
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Q215627
4)
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24
5)
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikiproject_Fictional_universes
On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 4:31 AM, Jane Darnell <jane023(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I would imagine it's for fictional characters like
Little Red Riding
Hood, but I see that when I click on "What links here" while on page
Q215627 I see "Sleeping Beauty", but also roles and dead people. I am
just as lost as you are!
2014-02-15 2:42 GMT+01:00, Hady elsahar <hadyelsahar(a)gmail.com>om>:
Hi all,
just got confused a little bit between Person Q215627 and Human Q5
classes
in the Person page
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q215627> it's written
"not
for use with P31, instead use Q5 human" , if so what's the usage of the
Person class ?
thanks
Regards
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Hady El-Sahar
Research Assistant
Center of Informatics Sciences | Nile
University<http://nileuniversity.edu.eg/>
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