Some recent improvements to the Freebase Commons:
- The new Travel Commons contains information about travel destinations, tourist attractions, accommodation, and the like. Yes, you can now use Freebase to plan your next vacation!
- The Royalty and Nobility Commons has information about royal families, monarchs, noble ranks and titles, and the people who hold those ranks and titles. Take a look at how the Tsars of Russia died.
- The Medicine Commons has a new type, Notable person with medical condition to record facts like Michael J. Fox having Parkinson’s disease, or even HIV positive porn stars.
- The Biology commons has some new types like Fossils and Fossil sites.
- The Event commons is new, too, and contains information about well known events like JFK’s assassination (these were previously in the Time commons), as well as a special type for disasters. My favourite is the Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919.
That’s a lot of new stuff! If you’ve got any types of your own that you think are of broad, general interest and would like them considered for promotion, please let us know. In the meantime, have fun creating custom views with all these new types.
