Freebase Query with Table Template

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Blade Runner

Property Value
Release Date 1982-06-25
Director Ridley Scott
Actors

Harrison Ford
Rutger Hauer
Sean Young
Edward James Olmos
Daryl Hannah
William Sanderson
Joanna Cassidy
M. Emmet Walsh
James Hong
Morgan Paull
Brion James
Joe Turkel

Source: Freebase - The World's Database

Freely licensed under CC-BY.



You can create templates, which encapsulate MQL Queries and format the output using MediaWiki Templates. This allows typical users to present structured data on their wiki page without ever having to know how Freebase or MQL works.

To generate the table on the right, I simply included wiki markup like: 

{{fbmovie | /topic/en/blade_runner }}

Setting up templates like this is actually very easy. All you need is a MQL query that will get the results you are interested in and a bit of knowledge about wiki markup. You can see the template itself at: Template:Fbmovie

The Text of the Article

If this were a real article you would see the collaboratively developed wiki text content in this space. Blade Runner is an excellent film, you should really see it if you haven't. Of course, if you have a chance to see it on the 'big screen' it's a completely different experience.

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