Freebase has 40,760
<https://www.freebase.com/query?autorun=1&q=%5B%7B%22%2Fbase%2Fwordnet%2Fsynset%2Fequivalent_topic%22%3A%5B%7B%22id%22%3Anull%7D%5D%2C%22return%22%3A%22count%22%7D%5D>
WordNet
synsets mapped to equivalent Freebase topics and another 2,300 mapped to
broader topics. This could be used to bootstrap any efforts in this space.
Of course, it's out of a total of almost 118,000 synsets, so it's only
35-40% coverage, but it probably covers the most popular/common topics.
Something to be careful of is semantic drift in Wikipedia/Wikidata, since
these alignments were originally done back in 2009.
Here's the schema <https://www.freebase.com/base/wordnet/?schema=> for the
types associated with Wordnet in Freebase. (Yes, I know types are evil and
illegal in Wikidata, but just consider them collections of properties
grouped together for human organizational convenience.)
BTW, I agree with Daniel that care is needed here. It's easy for casual
observers to get confused about what should be connected, particularly
since Wikipedia articles aren't necessarily divided along strict semantic
lines.
Tom
On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 5:17 AM, Daniel Kinzler <daniel.kinzler(a)wikimedia.de
wrote:
Am 12.04.2016 um 08:42 schrieb Stas Malyshev:
Hi!
> Is there a property for WordnetId?
More mappings are always good. The case of WordNet is a bit tricky though,
since
WordNet is about words, not concepts. Wikidata items can perhaps be mapped
to
SynSets, but we still have to be careful not to get confused about the
semantics.
--
Daniel Kinzler
Senior Software Developer
Wikimedia Deutschland
Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.
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