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Re:Wikipedia Is Trying to Transcend the Limits of Human Lang... by johnday on Friday September 03, 2021 @07:21AM (#28402734)
The point is that "mayors of San Fransisco" does not have a single answer, and therefore any answer WikiData provides will be glossing over a mountain of nuance and important distinctions in terminology.

The same is true of a million million different individual and aggregated data points all across WikiData.

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Re:Wikipedia Is Trying to Transcend the Limits of Human Lang... by adwn on Friday September 03, 2021 @07:34AM (#28402812)
In the context of Wikipedia articles about the Western US city commonly called "San Francisco", the concept of "mayor" is sufficiently well defined that there is a single answer to it.

The concerns voiced here sound a little like "What if in a hundred years, GPT-255 has subjugated all of humanity into a hive-mind and the terms 'San Francisco' and 'mayor' are meaningless?"

Yes, well. One thing at a time.

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Re:Wikipedia Is Trying to Transcend the Limits of Human Lang... by johnday on Friday September 03, 2021 @07:00PM (#28410390)
I was using the singular example from the parent comment. If it would convince you more, I will provide others - though I'm sure you could think of some yourself, if the mood took you.
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