Wikidata:Property proposal/Wolfram Language entity code

Wolfram Language entity code edit

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Generic

Done: Wolfram Language entity code (P4839) (Talk and documentation)

Description	input form for an entity in Wolfram Language
Data type	String
Domain	entity (Q35120)
Example	Earth (Q2) → Entity["Planet", "Earth"] Riemann hypothesis (Q205966) → Entity["FamousMathProblem", "RiemannHypothesis"]

Motivation edit

There is the Wolfram Knowledgebase with a huge number of entities. In many cases, the input form can be obtained through and typed into Wolfram|Alpha, e.g., Entity["Person", "GottfriedLeibniz::s2hc2"] or Entity["ProgrammingLanguage", "JavaScript::g3427"], though Entity["Character", 33] does not work (one may use the Wolfram Open Cloud instead), so I do not propose any formatter URL. What do you think? -- IvanP (talk) 20:37, 13 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion edit

Support by analogy with something like BabelNet ID (P2581). Mahir256 (talk) 00:44, 15 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support I think you should add the WolframAlpha link as formatter URL, even if it doesn't work in some cases, as it seems useful for many. ArthurPSmith (talk) 16:14, 16 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Comment somehow I'm not really convinced by the suggest format. Why is "entity" included?
--- Jura 20:07, 16 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
- You mean why it is in the name? To make clear that the code is for an entity in Wolfram Language (not everything is an entity there!). Consider the sign function. There is Sign, e.g., one could write Sign[Tan[10^9]], but the entity representing the function is written as Entity["MathematicalFunction", "Sign"]. The latter is suitable for the property as I suggest it, but not the former. (There also is Entity["WolframLanguageSymbol", "Sign"], but I would not use it for sign function (Q236813) since this is about the sign function, not the Wolfram Language symbol for it.) Or consider Graph[{1 <-> 2, 2 <-> 3, 3 <-> 1}] versus Entity["Graph", "TriangleGraph"], \[Sqrt] versus "\[Sqrt]" versus Entity["Character", 8730]. Hope this clears it up a bit. -- IvanP (talk) 21:13, 16 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  - I mean in the format for the values. Currently the first sample reads Entity["Planet", "Earth"]
    but it could be "Planet", "Earth"
    or even Planet with Earth in a qualifier.
    --- Jura 21:19, 16 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    - I do not see a difference between Entity["Planet", "Earth"] and Entity["Planet", "Earth"], can you clarify? -- IvanP (talk) 21:27, 16 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
      - Fixed above. Sorry about that.
        --- Jura 21:28, 16 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
        Ah. Well, Entity["Planet", "Earth"] is how it is actually typed in. Another possibility would be to call the property “Wolfram Language canonical entity name” (canonical name as opposed to common name) and use "Earth" (with quotation marks, else what to do about Entity["Character", 8730]?) with "Planet" in a qualifier for the type. -- IvanP (talk) 21:49, 16 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
        So it could be CanonicalName or value with a qualifier for entities like 8730 ?
        --- Jura 17:04, 20 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
        For information: The full entity name is in the format of Entity["Type", "Name"] and the Name itself means nothing in Mathematica.--GZWDer (talk) 03:41, 14 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support This is just a list of IDs, why oppose IDs? --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 11:43, 18 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@IvanP, Mahir256, ArthurPSmith, Jura1, Liuxinyu970226: Done--GZWDer (talk) 03:36, 14 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]