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Asked: 2026-05-16T01:56:44+00:00

I want to write a query that gets back everything that is known about

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I want to write a query that gets back everything that is known about a topic (only needs to be one level deep.

When working in the Freebase MQL Editor they give the following example for “Everything we know about Jimi Hendrix”:

{
  "*" : null,
  "name" : "Jimi Hendrix",
  "type" : "/music/artist"
}

The problem is that the query is bound to a type “/music/artist” and is only getting back properties that relate to that type. If you change the query to use a different type you get an entirely different result set.

{
  "*" : null,
  "name" : "Jimi Hendrix",
  "type" : "/people/person"
}

How can I write a query that really gets back everything that Freebase knows about Jimi Hendrix?

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  1. Editorial Team

    The Freebase Topic API might be what you’re after:

    http://www.freebase.com/experimental/topic/standard?id=/en/jimi_hendrix

    The Topic API will grab all properties directly related to a topic in the graph. The API wraps a series of MQL queries to get all the data and outputs in JSON.

    Google “Freebase Topic HTTP API” for further information.

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