It is wbgetentitie*s* requests like:
https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbgetentities&ids=Q219937|Q42&format=jsonfmgive
you two entities Q219937 and Q42.

Sk!d

On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 3:35 PM, Yuri Astrakhan <[email protected]>wrote:

> During an IRC discussion, I was told that a page in namespace 0 like
> Q219937 <http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q219937> does not necessarily have
> a one-to-one relationship with an entity like "Bonnie and Clyde".
>
> wbgetentities<http://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbgetentities&ids=Q219937&format=jsonfm>
>  API
> call gives this:
>
> "entities": {
>      "q219937": {
>         "pageid": 214789,
>         "ns": 0,
>         "title": "Q219937",
>         "lastrevid": 7969610,
>         "modified": "2013-02-27T09:17:25Z",
>         "id": "q219937",
>         "type": "item",
>         "aliases": {
>                ......
>
> How is it possible to have more than one entity in one wiki page
> titled Q219937, if the entity id is the same as page title? In what cases
> would it be used? Is that a needed extra complexity?
>
> In the case of Bonnie and Clyde (one wikipage in language A vs two
> wikipages in B), wikidata can have three entities with links to static
> redirects, apparently solving the need of one-to-many.
>
> I am only considering item entities (ns:0), since query pages will
> obviously have more than one entity associated with them.
>
> Thanks!
>
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