On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 5:45 PM, James Heald j.heald@ucl.ac.uk wrote:
Had Freebase done much extraction of battlefield info?
They did some, e.g. Military Conflict data extracted from Wikipedia Infoboxes, April 24 2012 https://www.freebase.com/m/0jbcvt2 (which also shows the type of detailed provenance info they keep for bulk data loads). There are 5,581 battles https://www.freebase.com/queryeditor?lang=%2Flang%2Fen&q=%5B%7B%22id%22%3Anull%2C%22name%22%3Anull%2C%22type%22%3A%22%2Fmilitary%2Fbattle%22%2C%22%2Fmilitary%2Fmilitary_conflict%2Flocations%22%3A%5B%7B%22id%22%3Anull%2C%22name%22%3Anull%2C%22%2Flocation%2Flocation%2Fgeolocation%22%3A%7B%22type%22%3A%22%2Flocation%2Fgeocode%22%2C%22longitude%22%3Anull%2C%22latitude%22%3Anull%2C%22elevation%22%3Anull%7D%7D%5D%2C%22%2Ftime%2Fevent%2Fstart_date%22%3Anull%2C%22%2Ftime%2Fevent%2Fend_date%22%3Anull%2C%22return%22%3A%22count%22%7D%5D (a subset of the 10,529 military conflicts https://www.freebase.com/queryeditor?lang=%2Flang%2Fen&q=%5B%7B%22id%22%3Anull%2C%22name%22%3Anull%2C%22type%22%3A%22%2Fmilitary%2Fmilitary_conflict%22%2C%22%2Fmilitary%2Fmilitary_conflict%2Flocations%22%3A%5B%7B%22id%22%3Anull%2C%22name%22%3Anull%2C%22%2Flocation%2Flocation%2Fgeolocation%22%3A%7B%22type%22%3A%22%2Flocation%2Fgeocode%22%2C%22longitude%22%3Anull%2C%22latitude%22%3Anull%2C%22elevation%22%3Anull%7D%7D%5D%2C%22%2Ftime%2Fevent%2Fstart_date%22%3Anull%2C%22%2Ftime%2Fevent%2Fend_date%22%3Anull%2C%22return%22%3A%22count%22%7D%5D). There's a list of all the military conflicts available here https://www.freebase.com/military/military_conflict?instances=, but now that Freebase is read-only there isn't an easy way to generate a table of dates & locations through the GUI, so some (a tiny bit) of programming would be required to extract the info.
Tom