Why not flip the question around and instead find a better predicate using
the fantastic Wikidata Property Explorer
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/prop-explorer/> and type in search tree for
"award" and click the results in the tree ?

I found these that are useful:

https://www.wikidata.org/entity/P166
https://www.wikidata.org/entity/P1027
https://www.wikidata.org/entity/P1411

Thad
https://www.linkedin.com/in/thadguidry/


On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 2:34 PM Aidan Hogan <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> Andra recently mentioned about finding laureates in Wikidata, and it
> reminded me that some weeks ago I was trying to come up with a SPARQL
> query to find all Nobel Prize Winners in Wikidata.
>
> What I ended up with was:
>
> SELECT ?winner
> WHERE {
>    ?winner wdt:P166 ?prize .
>    ?prize (wdt:P361|wdt:P31|wdt:P279) wd:Q7191 .
> }
>
>
> More specifically, looking into the data I found:
>
> Nobel Peace Prize (Q35637)
>   part of (P361)
>    Nobel Prize (Q7191) .
>
> Nobel Prize in Literature (Q37922)
>   subclass of (P279)
>    Nobel Prize (Q7191) .
>
> Nobel Prize in Economics (Q47170)
>   instance of (P31)
>     Nobel Prize (Q7191) ;
>   part of (P361)
>     Nobel Prize (Q7191) .
>
> Nobel Prize in Chemistry (Q44585)
>   instance of (P31)
>     Nobel Prize (Q7191) ;
>   part of (P361)
>     Nobel Prize (Q7191) .
>
> Nobel Prize in Physics (Q38104)
>   subclass of (P31)
>     Nobel Prize (Q7191) ;
>   part of (P361)
>     Nobel Prize (Q7191) .
>
> In summary, of the six types of Nobel prizes, three different properties
> are used in five different combinations to state that they "are", in
> fact, Nobel prizes. :)
>
> Now while it would be interesting to discuss the relative merits of P31
> vs. P279 vs. P361 vs. some combination thereof in this case and similar
> such cases, I guess I am more interested in the general problem of the
> lack of consensus that such a case exhibits.
>
> What processes (be they social, technical, or some combination thereof)
> are currently in place to reach consensus in these cases in Wikidata?
>
> What could be put in place in future to highlight and reach consensus?
>
> Or is the idea more to leave the burden of "integrating" different
> viewpoints to the consumer (e.g., to the person writing the query)?
>
> (Of course these are all "million dollar questions" that have been with
> the Semantic Web since the beginning, but I am curious about what is
> being done or can be done in the specific context of Wikidata to foster
> consensus and reduce heterogeneity in such cases.)
>
> Best,
> Aidan
>
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