Continue to replace schema:LocalBusiness with schema:Place?

[saumier]

In Schema.org there are many types of entities that are both a schema:Organization and a schema:Place. For example, any type of schema:LocalBusiness. This includes the subtypes of schema:LocalBusiness such as schema:EntertainementBusiness including schema:ArtGallery and schema:MovieTheatre to name only a few commonly used.

In Artsdata the entities are always separate, meaning they are mutually exclusive. This was the preferred approach when Artsdata was launched with LDFI and the help of Beat Easterman.

However, as Artsdata.ca grows and collects information from the web, Artsdata has had to automate the separation of Organizations and Places by replacing types schema:ArtGallery, schema:MovieTheatre, schema:LocalBusiness with schema:Place. For example, a schema:ArtGallery is both a Place and an Organization, but in order to load into Artsdata the type schema:ArtGallery has to be replaced by schema:Place. This loses some of the granularity quality of the data. However, without doing this, an organization like Maison de la Culture and the place Maison de la Culture will both be linked as organizers and locations of events if one of them is given the type schema:LocalBusiness.

Should this practise of replacing schema:LocalBusiness (and subtypes) with schema:Place continue?