People Smart Collection

OK, so I have been using the new facial recognition feature to tag people in all my photos.
I would like to make a smart collection based on people, but can't see a way to do this. Any ideas?

You can't create a SC that finds all the pictures with keywords with the Person property enabled.
One workaround is to put all people keywords under a higher level keyword called "people" (imaginative, eh?) which is set not to export, and then the SC is Keywords / Contains / People.

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