How to get the name of a Wikidata item

Question

Let's say I have a Wikidata item QID Q19675, and want to get the name of that item in Spanish.

While getting a property like P281 postal code is easy, how to get the name, which for some reason is not a normal property? Preferably via the REST API.

Answer 1

You probably want this:

https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbgetentities&props=labels&ids=Q19675&languages=es

The API command in English: Get information about some entities (action=wbgetentities), namely the label properties (props=labels) of item Q19675 (ids=Q19675) in Spanish (languages=es).

For more details, have a look at the full documentation of wbgetentities.

Answer 2

You can get it also using SPARQL:

SELECT DISTINCT * WHERE {
  wd:Q19675 rdfs:label ?label . 
  FILTER (langMatches( lang(?label), "ES" ) )  
}

See it on Wikidata Query Service.