filter Freebase suggest results based on category

[jodischneider]

When choosing Freebase items, I get lots of irrelevant stuff with the same name -- like book editions, books, musical recordings.

Does Freebase suggest allow you to specify the categories you'll accept?

If their API allows, I'd recommend filtering:

Institution fields should allow

• College/University
• Employer
• Organization
• Company
• Museum
  (there may be other relevant ones but those are the ones I've encountered)

Topics fields should allow

• Programming language
• Organizational sector
• Literature subject
• Project
• Topic
  (there may be other relevant ones but those are the ones I've encountered)

[edsu]

Freebase Suggest does allow you to filter yes. If you can supply a list of Freebase suggest categories I'm willing to try it. Alternatively I could use the existing tags to see what the most popular categories are by now, and constrain to that.

[edsu]

I think this was done a while ago. It will likely need adjustment though when addressing #38