Andy,

Yes, your understanding of the /chemicals_of_this_type is correct.  It is
used to classify "instance of this type" ... and not "part of" parent-child
relationships.  Here is the actual definition used in Freebase:

Chemical compounds that are included in this classification

However, there are a few assumption errors in the data (Object/Values),
that I agree probably need to be corrected later.

Not sure how chemists classify a component of a Thing, i.e., the following
statements need to be analyzed and understood by a chemist, but then there
are layman concepts that should also probably be held in a new Wikidata
property if the community finds it useful to explain chemicals:

​"​
 It is one of the two components of starch, the other being amylose.
​ "​
" Starch branching enzyme
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starch_branching_enzyme> introduces
1,6-alpha glycosidic bonds between these chains, creating the branched
amylopectin. "


Thad
+ThadGuidry <https://www.google.com/+ThadGuidry>

On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 7:50 AM, Andy Mabbett <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On 17 June 2015 at 20:17, Thomas Pellissier-Tanon <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > @Andy
>
> >> It seems to me that, before the dats can be imported, we'll need to add
> >> several new Wikidata properties. Was that your intention?
>
> > feel free to start the
> > property creation process. I'm still at Google for 8 weeks so we have
> time
> > to go throw the property creation process.
>
> I'm happy to do that; but I may need some help with knowing what is
> meant by each property. For example:
>
>
> https://www.freebase.com/chemistry/chemical_classification/chemicals_of_this_type?instances=
>
> seems to be saying that Amylopectin is (in Wikidata terms) an
> "instance of" (P31) a starch, but that doesn't seem right.
>
> Also, properties which require data-types that have not yet been set
> up, such as measurements, will have to wait for those data types to
> become available. That won't occur within eight weeks.
>
> --
> Andy Mabbett
> @pigsonthewing
> http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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