Wiki Data

Wikidata provides a large, free, open and a structured knowledge base that can be adapted for public use. We have begun adapting some of the Wikidata datasets and interfaced them to the BRIDGES API, using the Wikidata Query Service.

The Wikidata dataset dates back from the early 20th century and contain all English movies. However it has almost no meta data. The entire dataset from 1900 until now is composed of about 500,000 actor/movie pairs

This dataset is particularly good to see the evolution of the movie actor dataset across time.

See also

This tutorial gives an introduction to the usage of the wikidata actor movie dataset. You can find the complete documentation of the features in the Doxygen documentation of the following classes and functions:

1. MovieActorWikiData [Java] [C++] [Python]
2. getWikiMovieActor() [Java] [C++] [Python]

Accessing Actor/Movies from Wikidata: An Example BRIDGES program

The program snippet below illustrates how to access the Wikidata actor/movie data using the Wikidata source.

• Copy/paste the code into your environment and compile.
• Assuming all your code is correct and it compiles correctly, the code will print a record of the data to the console.