README.md

Wikidata + GraphQL: Dream API In 2017

Example query 1:

Get the all members of the Beatles and where they were born and their twitter username.

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{
  entity(id: "Q1299") {
    label(lang: "en")
    has_part {
      mainsnak {
        label(lang: "en")
        award_received {
          mainsnak {
            label(lang: "en")
          }
        }
        place_of_birth {
          mainsnak {
            label(lang: "en")
          }
        }
        twitter_username {
          mainsnak
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

Example query 2

Get China's all past head_of_government, and where they educated_at, and what other positions they've held before.

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{
  entity(id: "Q148") {
    label(lang: "en")
    head_of_government {
      mainsnak {
        label(lang: "en")
        educated_at {
          mainsnak {
            id
            label(lang: "en")
          }
        }
        position_held {
         	mainsnak {
            label(lang: "en")
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

TODOS

1. need add reference and qualifiers
2. support search entities
3. other datatype like Time and Media, Geographic object to the graphql schema
4. and maybe thing to help make some of reverse lookup possible