In the previous post, we mentioned the "person" attribute as if it were part of the Attribute Type definitions. Of course, it isn't. The definitions do mention all sorts of persons (strangely but no doubt coincidently begining with the latter "a"): actor, agent, artist, author.
It would be very useful if Google Base defined a number of very basic concepts as attributes. This would make reusing and understanding what new (and existing) definitions mean a lot easier. Here are a few suggestions for the basic types:
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person -- yields actor, agent, and so forth
- organization -- yields university, employer, ...
- phone_number -- yields fax_number, home_number, ...