change it to a conditional mapping depending on the existing
properties and leave owl:Thing only for GND.
No need. A thing does not become a Person by virtue of having an id. Eg ULAN holds People, Orgs (actually Groups) and Unknown People that's a weird beast.
(spawned from #40) @jimkont proposes to amend http://mappings.dbpedia.org/index.php/Mapping_en:Authority_control by mapping each id not only to a literal, but also to a URL.
No need. A thing does not become a Person by virtue of having an id. Eg ULAN holds People, Orgs (actually Groups) and Unknown People that's a weird beast.