So the Venn diagramming artwork that Freebase Sets logo used is appropriate.
To explain it for you in Wikidata terms...
As a user, Freebase Sets could be used to input let's say 2 items (max of
5).
It would run queries to figure out for the user what other topics had the
same overlapping statement values (Venn union). Figure out whats common,
give me other things that share that commonality.
Ex. I enter the following items using Wikidata as example, and on each
selecting the Q id (just as Wikidata Search dropdown suggests, it worked
the same way)
"Eiffel Tower"
"Bavarian Forest National Park"
I then click on "Find Set" and it would run queries on those 2 items to
find other items that shared similar statements AND their concrete values
matching exactly for all those statements (as best it could with a few
simple algorithms, hints, exclusions)
Statements and Concrete values common to those 2 items (those in ()
parentheses might be excluded as not useful) :
instance of
inception
named after
country
located in the administrative territorial entity
topic's main category
(official website)
(image)
Incidentally, the above 2 items would result in probably 0 results since
their values don't match on any of those statements. But it was just a
quick example to show you how you could put in very disconnected items
COULD be put into a query to find SOME overlapping relationships
discovered. That was the power of Freebase Sets. It offered a different
way to explore the graph of relations.
In Wikidata terms, imagine being able to hold down CTRL and being able to
interactively "queue up" clicking all the ellipses (triple dot next) on ALL
the same statements between the 2 items, that finally runs a big combined
query to find all the matching items that share that "overlapping statement
set". (Venn union)
But it could do this with more than just 2 items to give you some really
cool and interesting result overlaps you normally would not discover or
know about!
Technically, it's actually not that hard to put a Lab tool together that
would be able to mimic Freebase Sets. Some of our existing Example Queries
in WQS are basically manually curated Freebase Sets. But a tool could
automate the discovery of overlapping statements between X items.
Thad
https://www.linkedin.com/in/thadguidry/
On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 1:02 AM Lydia Pintscher <
Lydia.Pintscher(a)wikimedia.de> wrote:
On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 9:17 PM Thad Guidry
<thadguidry(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I recently asked an old Freebase colleague
@narphorium to graciously
spend some time to write up what was once a very cool
Freebase app that
many of us used in Freebase to see overlap of Freebase Properties (like WD
statements) between 1-5 Freebase Topics (like WD Items) that then ran a
query to find other Topics that matched that overlapping set.
I thought that sharing this knowledge would allow others to get inspired
and learn
and possibly build a similar shape tool for Wikidata; if not
already existing. It is just a small README.md in the repo below.
Hey Thad :)
That looks interesting. Could you elaborate a bit on what people used this
for?
Cheers
Lydia
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