> Same entity can be treated both as class and individual

This is valid for OWL as well.

2017-01-05 22:21 GMT+01:00 Stas Malyshev <smalys...@wikimedia.org>:

> Hi!
>
> > The best you can get in terms of "downloading the wikidata ontology"
> would be to
> > download all properties and all the items representing classes. We
> currently
> > don't have a separate dump for these. Also, do not expect this to be a
> concise
> > or consistent model that can be used for reasoning. You are bound to find
> > contradictions and lose ends.
>
> Also, Wikidata Toolkit (https://github.com/Wikidata/Wikidata-Toolkit)
> can be used to generate something like taxonomy - see e.g.
> http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-exports/rdf/exports/
> 20160801/dump_download.html
>
> But one has to be careful with it as Wikidata may not (and frequently
> does not) follow assumptions that are true for proper OWL models - there
> are no limits on what can be considered a class, a subclass, an
> instance, etc. Same entity can be treated both as class and individual,
> and there may be some weird structures, including even outright errors
> such as cycles in subclass graph, etc. And, of course, it changes all
> the time :)
>
> --
> Stas Malyshev
> smalys...@wikimedia.org
>
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