Use batch mode for Wikidata reconciliation

[wetneb]

Thanks a lot for this!

I just wanted to note that the Wikidata reconciliation API that you query can be used in batch mode: you can supply multiple reconciliation queries in a single request. This should speed up the resolution of these queries.
https://reconciliation-api.github.io/specs/latest/#sending-reconciliation-queries-to-a-service

[shigapov]

Thank you, Antonin @wetneb! We could also optimise our SPARQL-requests to Wikidata using the query hints of the Blazegraph (https://github.com/blazegraph/database/wiki/QueryHints). But I do not know whether the Wikidata-community would be fine with that...

[wetneb]

I don't think it would cause any harm to optimize queries that you are already running anyway, right?

[thadguidry]

@shigapov Also, you might also think about optimizations and subqueries that might involve analysis of https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1963 and gaps or differences between objects and statements that include or do not include defined "properties for this type", where many are commonly referred to as disambiguting properties. Those are the closest thing to what we had in Freebase when it was operational https://web.archive.org/web/20151002083332/http://wiki.freebase.com/wiki/Disambiguation
But are only 1 signal, and where for any particular type, those properties could certainly even be derived with machine learning, and not only hard coded as they are with P1963 inside Wikidata. Food for thought :-)