2024/11/23 by Peter F. Patel‐Schneider, Patel-Schneider, Peter F., Ege Atacan Doğan +1
Computer Science · Social Sciences · #Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #I.2.4 #Information Retrieval (cs.IR) #Text Readability and Simplification #Wikis in Education and Collaboration
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2411.15550
openalex publication_date 2024/11/23 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Wikidata has a large ontology with classes at several orders. The Wikidata ontology has long been known to have violations of class order and information related to class order that appears suspect. SPARQL queries were evaluated against Wikidata to determine the prevalence of several kinds of violations and suspect information and the results analyzed. Some changes were manually made to Wikidata to remove some of these results and the queries rerun, showing the effect of the changes. Suggestions are provided on how the problems uncovered might be addressed, either though better tooling or involvement of the Wikidata community.