On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 4:39 PM Thad Guidry <[email protected]> wrote: > > So the Venn diagramming artwork that Freebase Sets logo used is appropriate. > > To explain it for you in Wikidata terms... > As a user, Freebase Sets could be used to input let's say 2 items (max of 5). > It would run queries to figure out for the user what other topics had the > same overlapping statement values (Venn union). Figure out whats common, > give me other things that share that commonality. > > Ex. I enter the following items using Wikidata as example, and on each > selecting the Q id (just as Wikidata Search dropdown suggests, it worked the > same way) > "Eiffel Tower" > "Bavarian Forest National Park" > > I then click on "Find Set" and it would run queries on those 2 items to find > other items that shared similar statements AND their concrete values matching > exactly for all those statements (as best it could with a few simple > algorithms, hints, exclusions) > > Statements and Concrete values common to those 2 items (those in () > parentheses might be excluded as not useful) : > instance of > inception > named after > country > located in the administrative territorial entity > topic's main category > (official website) > (image) > > Incidentally, the above 2 items would result in probably 0 results since > their values don't match on any of those statements. But it was just a quick > example to show you how you could put in very disconnected items COULD be put > into a query to find SOME overlapping relationships discovered. That was the > power of Freebase Sets. It offered a different way to explore the graph of > relations. > > In Wikidata terms, imagine being able to hold down CTRL and being able to > interactively "queue up" clicking all the ellipses (triple dot next) on ALL > the same statements between the 2 items, that finally runs a big combined > query to find all the matching items that share that "overlapping statement > set". (Venn union) > But it could do this with more than just 2 items to give you some really cool > and interesting result overlaps you normally would not discover or know about! > > Technically, it's actually not that hard to put a Lab tool together that > would be able to mimic Freebase Sets. Some of our existing Example Queries > in WQS are basically manually curated Freebase Sets. But a tool could > automate the discovery of overlapping statements between X items.
Thanks for elaborating! That sounds interesting and worth some exploring I'd say if someone has a bit of spare time. Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Product Manager for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207. _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
