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Lars,

A point I forgot in my first reply:

On Mon, 2010-11-01 at 20:10 +0100, Lars Heuer wrote:



> > The way I would describe the first 15 uses of Austin would be to say the
> > subject has a property with the value "geographic-name," a property with
> > the value "Austin," for the US names I would add zip code sets as
> > properties, etc.
> 
> Maybe you're looking at the wrong source. DBpedia translates also the
> Wikipedia disambiguation pages into triples. That's true. It simply
> says that the "Austin" may refer to a city in Texas and Arkansas etc.
> 
> Each of these "Austin" subjects have their own IRI, of course.
> 
> > Actually for all US locations I would add zip code sets as alternative
> > identifiers, which will tie in a lot of US government data.
> 
> That's also provided by DBpedia. The "disambiguations" dataset simply
> converts pages like
> <https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Austin_%28disambiguation%29>
> into triples.
> 

Yes, I got that part but my concern was that "Austin, Texas" actually
has a set of zip codes associated with it. 

Such that is that set were considered an identifier, then I could
associate any other entity, person, letter, etc., whose record had one
of those zip codes as being associated with Austin, whether they had the
strings Austin, Texas in their records or not.

My point was that providing a set of zip codes as an alternative
identifier for Austin, Texas would provide an additional means for
creating associations by acting as identifiers for Austin, Texas (for
example).

Or does DBpedia provide sets of zip codes with URIs for referencing
them? 

Hope you are at the start of a great week!

Patrick