Question

I’m getting crazy trying to fetch properties description, i mean the ones that appear in the schema…

1) the text service doesn’t find properties description:
https://www.googleapis.com/freebase/v1/text/people/person/profession

2) properties doesn’t include /common/topic so they haven’t /common/topic/description?! am I right?

3) the /freebase/property_hint (or something…) doesn’t work for descriptions…

thanks
luca

Answer 1

The text for property descriptions is stored in /freebase/documented_object/tip. You can query it like this:

{
  "id": "/people/person/profession",
  "/freebase/documented_object/tip": null
}​

To figure these sorts of problems out, I often find it useful to scroll through the raw Freebase triples for a topic like this:

http://dev.freebase.com/people/person/profession?links

There you can see the direct relationship between the schema and the data.