daniel added a comment. Of course, we can just say that George Washington actually //is// a wikidata:Item in "the real world". Then the RDF would be correct. But then we'd still //not// be talking about the description. In particular, statements apply to the real world thing, not the description. We could make RDF that says the description //has// or //makes// specific statements. That would be the "fully reified" interpretation, that makes no claim about the world at all...
Actually - this kind of ties in with what we are currently working on for the query engine. We plan to use a "truthy" projection, representing a world where all "trusted" statements are considered "true". There we always make claims about the real world thing, not the document. I think both models and interpretations have merrit. We need to make sure we don't mix the vocabularies inappropriately. In particular, we'd need to use separate types for the descriptions and the thing-as-such. Thinking about it, I believe the fully reified version should use the /wiki/Special:EntityData-URIs. We defined the /entity/ URIs to refer to the thing as such. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T89949 REPLY HANDLER ACTIONS Reply to comment or attach files, or !close, !claim, !unsubscribe or !assign <username>. EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: daniel Cc: Smalyshev, mkroetzsch, Aklapper, daniel, Wikidata-bugs, Jdouglas, aude _______________________________________________ Wikidata-bugs mailing list Wikidata-bugs@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-bugs
