Wikifunctions are arguably the prerequisite to making that effort, since even if you extended Wikidata with more semantic connections, you couldn't do anything

Wikifunctions are arguably the prerequisite to making that effort, since even if you extended Wikidata with more semantic connections, you couldn't do anything with them. This is a large part of why Abstract Wikipedia's goal is NLG, and almost all of the initial Wikifunctions facilitate NLG.