Add Q136649946 (type of position metaclass) to position ignore list

[monneyboi]

Summary

The Wikidata entity Q136649946 "type of position" is a metaclass for positions, not an actual political position. It should be added to the _hierarchy_ignore list in Position to prevent importing meta-level concepts.

Details

• Entity: Q136649946
• Label: type of position
• Description: metaclass for position

Location

poliloom/poliloom/models/entities.py - Position._hierarchy_ignore list (line 294)

Proposed Change

Add "Q136649946", # type of position (metaclass) to the ignore list alongside existing filtered types like historical positions, occupations, and religious functions.

[monneyboi]

Analysis

Investigated the impact of adding Q136649946 to _hierarchy_ignore:

Metric	Count
Total positions in database	231,933
Positions that would be ignored	56
Politician properties referencing those positions	9,324

Affected positions include:

• Q48352 - head of state
• Q14212 - prime minister
• Q83307 - minister
• Q121998 - ambassador
• Q140686 - chairman/chairperson
• Q2285706 - head of government
• Q248577 - president of the republic
• Q889821 - US state/territory governor
• Q670106 - mayor (Italy)
• Various regional mayor types (56 total)

Data modeling question

These 56 entities are "types of positions" (e.g., "prime minister" is a type of position). The question is whether politicians should be linked to:

1. Abstract position types like Q14212 (prime minister) - currently 9,324 such links exist
2. Concrete position instances like Q59059549 (Prime Minister of the Netherlands) - more specific

This is a data quality question rather than a technical filtering issue. If we want only concrete positions, we'd need to:

• Migrate existing 9,324 properties to more specific position entities
• Update extraction/mapping logic to prefer concrete positions

Tagging as question for discussion.