The folks at Metaweb have been some incredible progress lately on Acre applications that make it really easy to quickly contribute missing data (such as “is this a person or not?”, or “is this person male or female?”) to topics that Freebase is unsure of.
Here are the 3 that I currently know of:
- Typewriter – sort through lists pulled from wikipedia to determine if their topics are people or structures or locations or books, etc.
- Genderizer – sort through known people to determine their gender
- Beta, may be broken at any point in time: geographer – we know it’s a location, but where is it on the map? (I’ll update this once it’s out of beta and has a permanent URL like the other 2.)
I’m on the leaderboards on Typewriter and Genderizer at present. Come unseat me!