(inspired by https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:Lexicographical_data#Please_advise_-_place_names)
Similar to T303677: Automatically generate descriptions for items based on their P31 (instance of) values, the gloss of lexeme may be deduced from its "item for this sense" (P5137) value. This is how this work:
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Lexeme:L437 has one sense with a statement pointing to https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q270704
- that item has English label "Třebíč" and description "town in Vysočina Region, Czech Republic"
- we put the description in a bracket, so the generated gloss is "Třebíč (town in Vysočina Region, Czech Republic)"
The benefit is now a sense can have glosses in more than 100 languages without manually adding them.
Note:
- Manual glosses will still override the automatically generated ones
- The description of items does not need to be materialized. It can be also deduced (see T303677), or generated from Abstract Content.