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Investigate and test "statement traversal" for depicts search
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Explore statement traversal, which will allow the Structured Data search system to find things like media tagged *only* with "German shepherd" in searches for "dog"

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A statement traversal issue:
When I search for media of "woman", most media including notable women such as Michelle Obama won't be returned. The depicts statements on those images will usually link to the actual person, who are stated as "instance of: human" and "gender: female". Same applies when searching for man, girl, boy, cyclist, painter, etc.

OK the general case of statement traversal at index time is not going to work - see T199119

Change 451028 had a related patch set uploaded (by Cparle; owner: Cparle):
[mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseMediaInfo@master] Work in progress

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/451028

Change 451625 had a related patch set uploaded (by Cparle; owner: Cparle):
[mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase@master] Make statement qualifier enclosing characters accessible

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/451625

Change 451625 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase@master] Make statement qualifier enclosing characters accessible

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/451625

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Investigated and concluded traversal for search isn't reasonable with current state of Wikidata hierarchy.