It seems ideally that Wikibase needs a few underpinnings in place before extending the API in further directions. One would be a way to mark a Property as being "disambiguating", to use a Freebase parlance. For instance, https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbgetentities&ids=P856 The property that has a label of "official website url" is an important disambiguating property. Unfortunately, there does not seem to be that marker that tells me if certain properties are useful to disambiguate between similar entities. I would like to see Wikibase extended so that individual Properties could be marked as being "disambiguating" or "rather important". Futhermore, the wbgetclaims action should also be able to use this new proposed parameter to return only disambiguating properties (instead of the default all properties) like so: https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbgetclaims&entity=Q1439&… Thoughts ? Thad +ThadGuidry <https://www.google.com/+ThadGuidry>

<quote name="Thad Guidry" date="2015-01-06" time="19:59:18 -0600"> Hi Thad! I'm worried that the relevant people from the Wikidata/Wikibase project just aren't seeing your messages on this mailing list. I'm cc'ing here the wikidata list. For those on the Wikidata list, see the full thread here: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-api/2015-January/003454.html Best, Greg -- | Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | | identi.ca: @greg A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D |

Hi Lydia, It's more than that. I can get labels just fine with &props=labels Ideally there were be a Number 3.... a reconcile service, or an API that can be USED as a reconcile service. Given a search string of "Paris", let's say... 1. Return some disambiguating properties and their labels and values. For reconciling purposes, you don't want to deal with codes like P12345 but instead a human understandable description of the property. a. Allow the output of the information returned to be expanded or reduced by some parameter values that I mentioned as OUTPUT. b. Allow the use of a (disambiguator) parameter to output only the disambiguating properties. (disambiguating properties are those that are most important when comparing A = B and given a type). In Freebase API, we had the option of this as shown here: http://freebase-search.freebaseapps.com/?query=Texas&output=(disambigua… The current "disambiguator" with Wikidata is actually the "descriptions". Wikidata does not flag or mark properties like P856 (official site) as a "disambiguating property", an important property. Freebase does however. It would be nice for Wikidata to begin work on having a disambiguating property flag (boolean Y/N) like Freebase does. The closest starting point for a Reconcile API with the current API structure that I can see is hacking a bit on this one: https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbgetentities&sites=enwiki&am… Btw, that closest starting point, only outputs 1 entity for "Paris" in the enwiki... where's Paris, Texas ? Thad +ThadGuidry <https://www.google.com/+ThadGuidry>

Yes I did try wbsearchentities, and your right, it returns more via a search operator. The problem with wbsearchentities is that it is limited and cannot additionally pipe output for the claims information (ideally important claims only, disambiguating claims/properties) Thad +ThadGuidry <https://www.google.com/+ThadGuidry>