On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 6:43 PM, Denny Vrandečić vrandecic@gmail.com wrote:
Actually, since Wikidata allows now properties on properties, one might easily create an item "Disambiguating property" and then make a claim "instance of - Disambiguating property" on the relevant property. there is no need for any extra implementation work.
And in fact that already exists ;-) See for example https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P345
Cheers Lydia
So Lydia,
Your saying that if I see https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18614948 as a property on another Property... then that is similar to the Freebase "disambiguating" flag ?
In Freebase, we have just one flag.... but that is not the case here, correct ? Wikidata has (or might have) several such "disambiguating" flags via the property on Property ?
It would be nice, from an API and developer perspective, to not have to discover all those disambiguating properties....but have only a master disambiguating property to work with...a single "disambiguator" flag, just like Freebase has.... is this possible, where someone can go through an mark all of them as "disambiguating" ?
My hope is that the Wikidata query service could give me nicely formatted output for claims that only contain disambiguating property data.... just like the Freebase API example URL that I mentioned at the beginning of the thread. So hopefuly you guys are saying that is possible via the property on a Property.
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