Openrefine: Allow reconciliation to close objects using coordinates from Wikidata (do not worry about labels)

[VojtechDostal]

Sometimes, you want to reconcile with objects no matter what their name (label) in Wikidata is. I have therefore created an empty column and tried to reconcile to it:

However, the reconciliation process fails because it is probably dependent on a non-empty string in the main field. Is it possible to somehow only reconcile based on coordinates?

[wetneb]

Currently the reconciliation API does not make it easy to reconcile without names, this is something we would like to improve:
https://github.com/reconciliation-api/specs/issues/27

The Wikidata reconciliation service will only ignore labels when given a unique identifier property as extra column, implementing coordinate-based retrieval would be quite some work in the current state of things (but I totally agree it would be a useful thing to do and hopefully it could happen once/if we migrate to a new architecture, see T244847).

[VojtechDostal]

Thank you for the great work you're doing ;)