this a completely workable solution for  running queries out of Freebase after the MQL API goes dark.

I have been watching the discussion about the trouble moving Freebase data to Wikidata and let me share some thoughts.

First quality is in the eye of the beholder and if somebody defines that quality is a matter of citing your sources,  than that is their definition of 'quality' and they can attain it.  You might have some other definition of quality and be appalled that Wikidata has so little to say about a topic that has caused much controversy and suffering:

there are ways to attain that too.

Part of the answer is that different products are going to be used in different places.  For instance,  one person might need 100% coverage of books he wants to talk about,  another one might want a really great database of ski areas,  etc.

Note that Freebase did a lot of human curation and we know they could get about 3000 verifications  of facts by "non-experts" a day who were paid for their efforts.  That scales out to almost a million facts per FTE per year.

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