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-------- Messaggio Inoltrato -------- Oggetto: Using wikidata to extract aditional information about entities Data: Thu, 16 Dec 2021 10:33:49 +0000 Mittente: Ricardo Pinto
Good afternoon!
My name is Ricardo Pinto, I am currently doing my thesis, and I am trying to make calls to Wikidata. I am presently using SPARQLWrapper in python to make the calls, but I am having trouble with some things that I hope you can help me with.
1. How can I get the entity identifier? Given an entity (e.g. Portugal) I need to get its identifier (e.g., Q45). Currently, I am doing this by searching on google, but I need this to be systematic. Can you help me? 2. While searching for entities related to another entity, I need to make calls using properties. Is there a way to know what the most used properties are? I need a systematic way to choose properties to search. Can you help me?
Best regards, Ricardo Pinto.
Hi Ricardo,
To answer your questions,
1. I would use the following query to get the info you need.
SELECT ?item ?itemLabel WHERE { ?item wdt:P31 wd:Q6256 ; rdfs:label "Portugal"@en . SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "en". } }
2. There are a few ways to SPARQL most used properties, but the size of the graph will definitely time out. You may want to start with the Wikidata Property Explorer https://prop-explorer.toolforge.org/.
best regards, Darnelle
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-------- Messaggio Inoltrato -------- Oggetto: Using wikidata to extract aditional information about entities Data: Thu, 16 Dec 2021 10:33:49 +0000 Mittente: Ricardo Pinto
Good afternoon!
My name is Ricardo Pinto, I am currently doing my thesis, and I am trying to make calls to Wikidata. I am presently using SPARQLWrapper in python to make the calls, but I am having trouble with some things that I hope you can help me with.
- How can I get the entity identifier? Given an entity (e.g. Portugal) I
need to get its identifier (e.g., Q45). Currently, I am doing this by searching on google, but I need this to be systematic. Can you help me? 2. While searching for entities related to another entity, I need to make calls using properties. Is there a way to know what the most used properties are? I need a systematic way to choose properties to search. Can you help me?
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Hi,
For #2, a good standard approach is to first get the "class" (or "classes") of the entity, using the property "instance of" (P31), then get the "properties for this type" (P1963) values for that class or classes. In many cases that will get you what are considered to be the expected properties for that entity.
-Yaron
On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 5:06 PM Darnelle Melvin darnelle.melvin@unlv.edu wrote:
Hi Ricardo,
To answer your questions,
- I would use the following query to get the info you need.
SELECT ?item ?itemLabel WHERE { ?item wdt:P31 wd:Q6256 ; rdfs:label "Portugal"@en . SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "en". } }
- There are a few ways to SPARQL most used properties, but the size of
the graph will definitely time out. You may want to start with the Wikidata Property Explorer https://prop-explorer.toolforge.org/.
best regards, Darnelle
[image: UNLV Logo] http://unlv.edu/
Darnelle O. Melvin
Special Collections and Archives Metadata Librarian
Assistant Professor University Libraries University of Nevada, Las Vegas
darnelle.melvin@unlv.edu Office: 702-895-2146 <17028952146>
Twitter https://twitter.com/metadataguy • ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4614-3504
On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 11:37 AM Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
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-------- Messaggio Inoltrato -------- Oggetto: Using wikidata to extract aditional information about entities Data: Thu, 16 Dec 2021 10:33:49 +0000 Mittente: Ricardo Pinto
Good afternoon!
My name is Ricardo Pinto, I am currently doing my thesis, and I am trying to make calls to Wikidata. I am presently using SPARQLWrapper in python to make the calls, but I am having trouble with some things that I hope you can help me with.
- How can I get the entity identifier? Given an entity (e.g. Portugal) I
need to get its identifier (e.g., Q45). Currently, I am doing this by searching on google, but I need this to be systematic. Can you help me? 2. While searching for entities related to another entity, I need to make calls using properties. Is there a way to know what the most used properties are? I need a systematic way to choose properties to search. Can you help me?
Best regards, Ricardo Pinto. _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list -- wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe send an email to wikidata-leave@lists.wikimedia.org
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