Tom, thanks! Just shared. You may want to unhide columns. I&#39;m trying to make it user friendly for non-tech savvy library volunteers who will be looking at folders of ephemera (exhibition announcements, magazine clippings, etc.) &amp; determining whether it&#39;s the same person as the wiki data record. <div>D<span></span><br><br>On Monday, October 31, 2016, Thomas Steiner &lt;<a href="mailto:tomac@google.com">tomac@google.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi David,<div><br></div><div>Mind sharing (privately if necessary) your spreadsheet? My recommended workflow would be to pair free-form terms (like your names) with the WIKISEARCH function and only then feed its output into WIKIDATAQID (or rather directly WIKIDATAFACTS, as it accepts qids or article titles directly). If this doesn&#39;t help, again the offer to share your spreadsheet so I can have a direct look. </div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Tom<span></span></div><br><br>-- <br>Dr. Thomas Steiner, Employee (<a href="http://blog.tomayac.com" target="_blank">http://blog.tomayac.com</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/tomayac" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/tomayac</a>)<br><br>Google Germany GmbH, ABC-Str. 19, 20354 Hamburg, Germany<br>Managing Directors: Matthew Scott Sucherman, Paul Terence Manicle<br>Registration office and registration number: Hamburg, HRB 86891<br><br>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----<br>Version: GnuPG v2.0.29 (GNU/Linux)<br><br>iFy0uwAntT0bE3xtRa5AfeCheCkthA<wbr>tTh3reSabiGbl0ck0fjumBl3DChara<wbr>CTersAttH3b0ttom<br><a href="hTtPs://xKcd.cOm/1181/" target="_blank">hTtPs://xKcd.cOm/1181/</a><br>-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----<br>
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