Freebase does the same as Wikidata -- and actually has five different MusicBrainz IDs associated https://www.freebase.com/m/01v_pj6?props=&lang=en&filter=%2Fcommon%2Ftopic%2Ftopic_equivalent_webpage

It's worth noting however that this "one person, one entry" view isn't universal.  Library cataloging practice is to treat pseudonyms separately, in the same way that you've already discovered MusicBrainz does.  It's worth keeping this in mind when interacting with other modeling communities.

Tom




On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 9:20 AM, Nicholas Humfrey <nicholas.humfrey@bbc.co.uk> wrote:
That is great, thanks for the clarification Andrew.

I guess as a rule of thumb, the label of the entry in Wikipedia should
match label of the linked entry in MusicBrainz.

nick.


-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Gray <andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk>
Date: Wednesday, 31 July 2013 12:59
To: "Discussion list for the Wikidata project."
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Cc: Nicholas Humfrey <nicholas.humfrey@bbc.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] Scope of a Wikidata entry

>Hi Nicholas,
>
>a) Yes, it is about the person and the aliases together. As a general
>rule, it's one article per person, not per name.
>
>b) Different names is a quirk of the Wikipedia background - these
>default to the title of the Wikipedia article on that person, and
>there's no agreement on whether to put the article under the person or
>the more famous pseudonym.
>
>c) At the moment, yes, there would need to be separate Wikipedia
>pages. I think for the specific case of people with pseudonyms,
>Wikidata is likely to continue on a "one entity" rule even if we relax
>the Wikipedia requirement.
>
>d) I think the initial assumption was that there was a 1=1 match, but
>if there are multiple musicbrainz id's representing facets of the same
>entity, then Wikidata will support adding several.
>
>Andrew.
>
>On 31 July 2013 12:45, Nicholas Humfrey <nicholas.humfrey@bbc.co.uk>
>wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Can you help me understand the scope of a Wikidata entry please?
>>
>>
>> What is this Wikidata entry for?
>> http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q272619
>>
>> Is it for the person Norman Cook and all of his aliases?
>> Should that title be Fatboy Slim or Norman Cook?
>> Is it ok that it has different titles in different languages?
>>
>> Do there have to be separate Wikpedia pages before we can create
>>separate
>> Wikidata entities for the separate concepts?
>>
>>
>> In MusicBrainz there are three artists that point to the 'Norman Cook'
>> Wikipedia page:
>>
>> http://musicbrainz.org/artist/3150be04-f42f-43e0-ab5c-77965a4f7a7d
>> http://musicbrainz.org/artist/34c63966-445c-4613-afe1-4f0e1e53ae9a
>> http://musicbrainz.org/artist/ba81eb4a-0c89-489f-9982-0154b8083a28
>>
>> Should they all be pointing at the same Wikidata entry too?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Is it ok that there is only a single MusicBrainz identifier in Wikidata?
>> How is that identifier chosen?
>>
>>
>> The problem that we are experiencing is that our Triplestore is merging
>> all these concepts together into a single entity and I am trying to work
>> out where to break the equivalence, or if it is even a problem.
>>
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> nick.
>>
>>
>>
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