How to query Wikidata items using its labels?

Question

How can I query Wikidata to get all items that have labels contain a word? I tried this but didn\'t work; it retrieved nothing.

SELECT ?item ?itemLabel WHERE {
          


        

Answer 1

As stated above, querying with case-insensitivity and truncation is very slow in SPARQL query service. I found this project on github: https://github.com/inventaire/entities-search-engine It sets up an ElasticSearch index which allows fast queries for use-cases like autocompletion.