Yes, every Wikidata page is about one and exactly one entity. There cannot be two entities on one page.
"Bonny and Clyde" is one entity, designing the pair of people. "Bonny" and "Clyde" each might also be one entity each, and there could be relevant connections between the three entities "Bonny", "Clyde", and "Bonny and Clyde". 2013/3/6 Yuri Astrakhan <[email protected]> > Sk!d, of course if you ask for multiple items, you get multiple items. My > question is the difference between MediaWiki concept of a "page", and the > wikidata concept of an entity, specifically relating to items and > properties (not queries). Are these concepts interchangeable? Is > one MediaWiki page the same as one wikidata item, and have one-to-one > mapping? > > > On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 9:41 AM, swuensch <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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! >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikidata-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> *Severin Wünsch* >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikidata-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l > > -- Project director Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Obentrautstr. 72 | 10963 Berlin Tel. +49-30-219 158 26-0 | http://wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
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