Combine Data from Multiple Domains

In addition to new entities and properties, the Wolfram Knowledgebase has also been enhanced by additional alignment and connections between data domains.

Start with a movie star.

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Entity["Person", "MattDamon::88f5d"][ EntityProperty["Person", "Image"]]

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Retrieve a list of his film appearances.

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films = Entity["Person", "MattDamon::88f5d"]["MovieAppearances"];

Extract a list of costars for whom some biographical information exists in the Wolfram Knowledgebase.

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costars = Cases[DeleteDuplicates[ Flatten[EntityValue[films, "Cast"]]], _Entity];

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RandomSample[costars, 10]

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Plot the known birthplaces of costars who have appeared in at least one of Matt Damon's films.

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Quiet@GeoGraphics[{Red, PointSize[0.01], Opacity[0.5], Point@DeleteMissing[EntityValue[costars, "BirthPlace"]]}]

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Turn again to the list of costars and find out if any of them achieved notoriety in another creative domain.

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writers = Normal[DeleteMissing[ EntityValue[costars, "NotableBooks", "EntityAssociation"]]]

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Utilize properties of movies and people to identify costars who presumably appeared only in archival footage and remove them from the list.

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firstFilm = Sort[EntityValue[films, "ReleaseDate"]][[1]]

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impossibleCostars = Select[writers, First[#]["DeathDate"] < firstFilm &]

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Complement[writers, impossibleCostars]

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