Endpoints

RDF Datasets and SPARQL Endpoints

Material for the course XML Technologies

Jean-François Perrot


The case of DBPedia

a DBPedia-specific SPARQL endpoint : http://dbpedia.org/sparql

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Example query to be sent to the default dataset : http://dbpedia.org

select ?first ?second
where {
   ?first <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label> "George Washington"@en .
   ?second <http://dbpedia.org/property/successor> ?first
}

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Did you know the result ? See Wikipedia to understand....

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See DBpedia/OnlineAccess for many examples of possible queries.