[Foundation-l] [Commons-l] Wikidata

Phil Nash phnash at blueyonder.co.uk
Wed Nov 24 23:45:28 UTC 2010


Marc Riddell wrote:
> on 11/24/10 6:10 PM, WJhonson at aol.com at WJhonson at aol.com wrote:
> 
>> Would this project answer the question I am trying to address today?
>> 
>> "Which American actors died in 1970?"
>> 
>> There does not appear to me, to be any obvious way of using the
>> built-in search engine to answer this question.  Searching for
>> "Actor 1970" generates a lot of false positives, an overwhelming
>> number. 
>> 
>> Is there no way to find the intersection of two categories ?
>> 
>> W
> 
> W,
> 
> Could it de done with a Category: 1970 Deaths - Actors, or some such
> thing? 
> 
> Marc

Try http://toolserver.org/~daniel/WikiSense/CategoryIntersect.php

plug in values  "en", "Deaths in 1970" and "American Actors".







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