Abstract
Wikidata has emerged as one of the most significant open infrastructures for structured knowledge in the information sciences. Specifically, data extracted from Wikidata can be interesting for working on geonyms, classifying nouns in place names (e.g., English alley) and their content similarity across languages, e.g., whether Italian piazza and Chinese guǎng chǎng both express the concept ‘square.’ In this paper we explore the use of Wikidata entries to represent the semantic content of geonyms and compare cross-linguistic representations, and thus Wikidata’s potential as a novel, powerful resource for geo-semantic, cross-linguistic research.