Depends how good the DBpedia data really is - as the BBC article says, some 2007 football match in the UK was extracted as a "Battle"...

On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 1:54 PM Daniel Kinzler <daniel.kinzler@wikimedia.de> wrote:

"They found 12,703 battles which had an exact location and date, 2,657 of them
are from Wikidata, the others are from DPpedia."

Maybe we can do better?

Am 02.03.2016 um 22:14 schrieb Lydia Pintscher:
> On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 8:14 PM Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen@gmail.com
> <mailto:gerard.meijssen@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hoi,
>     Yup I missed that one.. this [1] was my source :)
>     Gerard
>
>     [1] http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35685889
>
>
> This is really great. I am thrilled about this because this isn't coverage about
> Wikidata but coverage _with_ Wikidata on major news sites for the second time
> this week
> (http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/kino/academy-awards-die-oscars-von-1929-bis-heute-12820119.html being
> the other one). They're using Wikidata data to do meaningful reporting. Our data
> and the project as a whole got (at the very least) good enough for this. It
> feels to me like we've broken through a wall.
> High5 everyone! :D
>
> Cheers
> Lydia
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