Actually, since Wikidata allows now properties on properties, one might easily create an item &quot;Disambiguating property&quot; and then make a claim &quot;instance of - Disambiguating property&quot; on the relevant property. there is no need for any extra implementation work.<br><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed Jan 07 2015 at 9:48:32 AM Thad Guidry &lt;<a href="mailto:thadguidry@gmail.com">thadguidry@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi Lydia,<div><br></div><div>It&#39;s more than that.  I can get labels just fine with &amp;props=labels</div><div><br></div><div>Ideally there were be a Number 3.... a reconcile service, or an API that can be USED as a reconcile service.</div><div><br></div><div>Given a search string of &quot;Paris&quot;, let&#39;s say...</div><div><br></div><div>1. Return some disambiguating properties and their labels and values.  For reconciling purposes, you don&#39;t want to deal with codes like P12345 but instead a human understandable description of the property.</div><div>  a. Allow the output of the information returned to be expanded or reduced by some parameter values that I mentioned as OUTPUT.</div><div>  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: <a href="http://freebase-search.freebaseapps.com/?query=Texas&amp;output=(disambiguator)&amp;limit=100&amp;scoring=entity&amp;lang=en" target="_blank">http://freebase-search.freebaseapps.com/?query=Texas&amp;output=(disambiguator)&amp;limit=100&amp;scoring=entity&amp;lang=en</a></div><div><br></div><div>The current &quot;disambiguator&quot; with Wikidata is actually the &quot;descriptions&quot;.  Wikidata does not flag or mark properties like P856 (official site) as a &quot;disambiguating property&quot;, 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.</div></div><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>The closest starting point for a Reconcile API with the current API structure that I can see is hacking a bit on this one:</div><div><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbgetentities&amp;sites=enwiki&amp;titles=Paris&amp;languages=en&amp;props=descriptions%7Cclaims" target="_blank">https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbgetentities&amp;sites=enwiki&amp;titles=Paris&amp;languages=en&amp;props=descriptions|claims</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Btw, that closest starting point, only outputs 1 entity for &quot;Paris&quot; in the enwiki... where&#39;s Paris, Texas ?</div><div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Thad<div><a href="https://www.google.com/+ThadGuidry" target="_blank">+ThadGuidry</a></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div>
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