How to quickly generate word analogy datasets with Wikidata

One popular task in computational linguistics/natural language processing is the word analogy task: Copenhagen is to Denmark as Berlin is to …?

With queries to Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) it is reasonably easy to generate word analogy datasets in whatever (Wikidata-supported) language you like. For instance, for capitals and countries, a WDQS SPARQL query that returns results in Danish could go like this:

select
  ?country1Label ?capital1Label
  ?country2Label ?capital2Label
where { 
  ?country1 wdt:P36 ?capital1 .
  ?country1 wdt:P463 wd:Q1065 .
  ?country1 wdt:P1082 ?population1 .
  filter (?population1 > 5000000)
  ?country2 wdt:P36 ?capital2 .
  ?country2 wdt:P463 wd:Q1065 .
  ?country2 wdt:P1082 ?population2 .
  filter (?population2 > 5000000)
  filter (?country1 != ?country2)
  service wikibase:label
    { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "da". }  
} 
limit 1000

Follow this link to get to the query and press “Run” to get the results. It is possible to download the table as CSV-formatted (see under “Download”). One issue to note that you have multiple entries for countries with multiple capital cities, e.g., Sydafrika (South Africa) is listed with Pretoria, Kapstaden (Cape Town) and Bloemfontein.