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I found a front-end to Wikidata: https://qanswer-frontend.univ-st-etienne.fr/ https://qanswer-frontend.univ-st-etienne.fr/ I tried "who was harry potter's aun

by wenc 6y ago

I found a front-end to Wikidata: https://qanswer-frontend.univ-st-etienne.fr/ https://qanswer-frontend.univ-st-etienne.fr/ I tried "who was harry potter's aunt?" on it but that didn't seem to work. I tried googling the same question and Google gave me the correct answer. I think that Google, despite result skew, is pretty powerful sometimes. I asked Alexa the same question and she returned the correct answer as well.

thom 6y ago
That seems like a suboptimal implementation, when the info clearly exists: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3244512 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3244512 Google can be disappointing, however, when you want to ask a question few people have thought of. It would be hard to get a clear answer to "which family had the most members in Harry Potter?" etc, whereas that's a query you can write pretty naturally with a graph database, RDF or otherwise. I'd never say that I wish we just had massive triple stores and Google had never been invented, but I still maintain that linked data is exciting and expressive.
JeanFred 6y ago
askplatyp.us is another experimental front-end on top of WDQS − it worked with a slightly reworded question: https://askplatyp.us/?lang=en&q=Who%20is%20the%20aunt%20of%20Harry%20Potter%3F https://askplatyp.us/?lang=en&q=Who%20is%20the%20aunt%20of%2...
- thom 6y ago
  That appears to still just be using 'relative' as a relation, not 'aunt'. You get the same results for 'cousin' etc.