{"action":"opened","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/fakedrake/WikipediaBase/issues/45","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/fakedrake/WikipediaBase/issues/45/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/fakedrake/WikipediaBase/issues/45/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/fakedrake/WikipediaBase/issues/45/events","html_url":"https://github.com/fakedrake/WikipediaBase/issues/45","id":97869027,"number":45,"title":"Precision of infobox tree and start_types","user":{"login":"alvaromorales","id":2496170,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2496170?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/alvaromorales","html_url":"https://github.com/alvaromorales","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/alvaromorales/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/alvaromorales/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/alvaromorales/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/alvaromorales/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/alvaromorales/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/alvaromorales/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/alvaromorales/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/alvaromorales/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/alvaromorales/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":0,"created_at":"2015-07-29T06:18:04Z","updated_at":"2015-07-29T06:18:04Z","closed_at":null,"body":"WikipediaBase uses Wikipedia categories to augment the list of types returned to START.\r\n\r\nSome examples:\r\n\r\n```python\r\n>>> Infobox('Vladimir Putin').types()\r\n['Template:Infobox officeholder', 'Template:Infobox martial artist']\r\n>>> Infobox('Vladimir Putin').start_types()\r\n['wikipedia-officeholder', 'wikipedia-martial-artist', 'wikipedia-person', 'wikipedia-sportsperson', 'wikipedia-other-sportsperson']\r\n\r\n\r\n>>> Infobox('Massachusetts Institute of Technology').types()\r\n['Template:Infobox university', 'Template:Infobox US university ranking']\r\n>>> Infobox('Massachusetts Institute of Technology').start_types()\r\n['wikipedia-university', 'wikipedia-us-university-ranking', 'wikipedia-society-and-social-science', 'wikipedia-education']\r\n```\r\n\r\nWikipedia categories don't seem particularly clean, and I'm worried that they might hurt QA precision.\r\n\r\nIn addition, I don't see how categories are useful as infobox types. If START gets `wikipedia-society-and-social-science` as one of the types of MIT, it will try to look at the attributes of the `society-and-social-science` infobox which doesn't exist.\r\n\r\nCould you explain the motivations for using categories?"}}