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Cape names such as “Nightwing” and “Red X” were not merely nicknames equivalent to “Robin” but other unique identities of Dick Grayson, complete with their own costumes and storylines. As Victoria confirmed, this hierarchy meant that, in user retrieval, selecting “Dick Grayson” would return all works users had tagged with any of these four character tags. Figure 4.4: Hierarchy of Dick Grayson character names Hierarchical relationships such as this one resolved some of the ambiguity of a street name corresponding to multiple cape However, due to plot details in the DCU source material, wranglers needed to create a more complex hierarchy. Specifically, Victoria noted that “there’s five Robins,” meaning that at least one of the cape names in Figure 4.1 corresponded to multiple street names. That is, just as Dick Grayson has been many superheroes, many men and women have been Robin. Because TFR users tagged for multiple Robin street names from the DCU, wranglers who followed the above hierarchy had to create a polyhierarchy to account for overlapping street name/cape name relationships. In a classic hierarchy, subtags would have only one metatag, though metatags could have many subtags, as in Figure 4.1. In a polyhierarchy, subtags could have many metatags, as in Figure 4.2. The example hierarchy in Figure 4.2 includes more—but not all—of the Robin street names wranglers linked to the cape name. In this more complete hierarchy, “Carrie Kelley” and “Damian Wayne” are also metatags to “Robin,” and the additional cape name “Catgirl” is a subtag to “Carrie Kelley.” “Robin” is the only cape name shared among the three street names.
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