Well, you can't do this in the web API obviously, but there are a few ways you could do this. This is a good idea really -- thanks for bringing this up. One wa

Well, you can't do this in the web API obviously, but there are a few ways you could do this. This is a good idea really -- thanks for bringing this up. One way would be to predefine the entity types or tags that you want to get in your results. So you could ask for things like Italy that are nouns. The other way is to use the vector space. The classic demonstration of this is the arithmetic, doing like "Italy|GPE - *|GPE + food". My results for this have been very mixed. I wouldn't expect the query above to work. I would think you'd have more luck specifying the query as a combination of constraints: first query for foods in some way, and then sort them by distance from Italy.