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.
On Wed Jan 07 2015 at 9:48:32 AM Thad Guidry thadguidry@gmail.com wrote:
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...
- 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=(disambiguat...
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&...
Btw, that closest starting point, only outputs 1 entity for "Paris" in the enwiki... where's Paris, Texas ?
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