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I am running a very simple exercise where I have a list of people's names that have been already reconciled via freebase, from within Open Refine.

The Github repository for Open Refine clearly indicates that fetching Properties against a reconciled Freebase Type is still a "To Do" project, but apparently, fetching text blurbs is possible..

Starting from your reconciled column, use "Add column from Freebase" and use the "Add a property" field at the top to add /common/topic/article. - using the new column, select "Add a column by fetching a URL" and construct the URL as follows: "http://api.freebase.com/api/trans/raw"+value - You'll end up with another new column containing the text of all the blurbs

I don't have an option "Add column from Freebase".

No add column from Freebase

Am I missing something? Thank you very much for your help.

Luis Miguel
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That's presumably OpenRefine 2.6 beta since the production release isn't out yet [emphasis added].

If Add from Freebase is missing, something is wrong (ie it's a bug). Please file a bug report on GitHub with information on what operating system you're using. The documentation that you quoted is also out of date. Please also file a bug report for it with the location you found it.

Sorry about the problem! We'll have a look as soon as we've got the information from the bug report(s).

Tom Morris
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  • Yes, it is open refine 2.6 beta, for Mac. I'll try with the windows version, as well ans linux and I'll definitely file a bug report on GitHub. Thank you very much for all the great work Tom. Cheers. – Luis Miguel Sep 01 '13 at 03:31
  • For reference, the workaround from [the issue tracker](https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/issues/797#issuecomment-24886076) is to select a specific language from the main Refine screen - the missing text should then appear. – Alf Eaton Jan 20 '14 at 21:48