"A paper[1] presented at last week's EMNLP conference reports on a promising new AI-based tool (available at https://spinach.genie.stanford.edu/ ) to retrieve information from Wikidata using natural language questions. It can successfully answer complicated questions like the following:
"What are the musical instruments played by people who are affiliated with the University of Washington School of Music and have been educated at the University of Washington, and how many people play each instrument?"
The authors note that Wikidata is one of the largest publicly available knowledge bases [and] currently contains 15 billion facts, and claim that it is of significant value to many scientific communities. However, they observe that Effective access to Wikidata data can be challenging, requiring use of the SPARQL query language.
This motivates the use of large language models to convert natural language questions into SPARQL queries, which could obviously be of great value to non-technical users."
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2024/November