tetrak-authority

A name authority from a dated Wikidata snapshot, for catalogue search across scripts: for each person, organisation or place in a chosen subset of Wikidata, the established form, every label and alias in every language, fold keys for retrieval, and the identifiers that link a record onward.

• Installation
• Usage
  • Loading a snapshot
  • Looking a name up
  • What a record holds
  • Deciding which person a record means
  • Checking one name live
• The snapshot
  • The scope
  • What is fetched
  • Endpoints
  • Etiquette
  • Keys and tetrak-translit
• Command line
  • Positional Arguments
  • Named Arguments
  • Sub-commands
  • Examples
• API reference
  • tetrak_authority.model
  • tetrak_authority.authority
  • tetrak_authority.snapshot
  • tetrak_authority.wikidata
  • tetrak_authority.cli

In one screen

>>> from tetrak_authority import Authority
>>> authority = Authority.load("snapshots/hy")
>>> for match in authority.match("Tumanyan, Hovhannes"):
...     print(match.entity.id, match.entity.label, match.entity.born, match.exact)
Q380797 Հովհաննես Թումանյան 1869 True
Q20513561 Հովհաննես Թումանյան 1930 True

The lookup folds the name with tetrak-translit and sorts the words, so an inverted catalogue form, a classical spelling and a diaspora romanisation reach the same record; the two results are two people who share a name, which the years and the identifiers tell apart.