Absolute Wikidata and SPARQL beginner here. I am trying to find out the Q code of a particular female name, say Jennifer. I can get it with a query like this:
SELECT ?name WHERE {
?name wdt:P31 wd:Q11879590.
?name rdfs:label ?label.
FILTER((STR(?label)) = "Jennifer")
SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "en". }
}
LIMIT 1
That is, I look up entities that are instance of "female given name" and then filter to those with "Jennifer" in the label. It works, but it takes 5 s or more.
If I omit the LIMIT 1 I get many instances of the same results, which signals to me that I am doing something stupid.
Bottom line, is there an efficient way to look up the Q code for a "female given name"?
