Related work: Wikidata "subsetting" collaborations about simple-wikidata-db HOT 3 OPEN

Hi @danbri! Thanks for the note. It's lovely to hear that you're a fan, and thanks for sharing it on the wikidata page.

We actually created this while working on Bootleg--for much the same reasons you've cited. We frequently wanted to pull triples for a certain entity, or find all entities which had a certain property (e.g. the alias "Lincoln"). Using query.wikidata.org started becoming inefficient.

Please let me know if there are any updates or features you think could make this more useful to a larger community!

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There's talk of having more meetings around subsetting - will let you know if anything comes of it

Oh, if you dig around in https://github.com/google/schemarama/tree/main/kgx you'll find SPARQL queries that pull out some lifescience-related pieces of Wikidata (intern work that I should finish opensource releasing!). The goal we were pursuing there was to try to extract from Wikidata, only those entities/relationships corresponding to Figure 1 in https://elifesciences.org/articles/52614 . This shouldn't be rocket science but turns out to be fiddly: the data dumps are huge and unwieldy, as you note. And the official SPARQL endpoint is heavily loaded. Some related work https://addshore.com/2019/10/your-own-wikidata-query-service-with-no-limits/ might help there, but definitely still fiddly!

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Interesting! I'll poke around -- thanks for the pointer!

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