Your best bet is to use the Wikipedia Categories. They are not available on Wikidata, but are available on DBpedia.
We did a lot of work on this in the Europeana Food and Drink project.
We got a "FD classification" based on a filtered set of Wikipedia categories:
http://efd.ontotext.com/data/#sec-3
You could find a bit more details (including presentations) in http://vladimiralexiev.github.io/pubs/

Good luck!