DBpedia receives shot #1 of CLASSiness vaccine

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Kingsley Idehen

Lexington, United States

FOAF

The current live instance of DBpedia has just received dose #1 of a series of planned "Context" oriented booster shots. These shots seek to to protect DBpedia from contextual incoherence as it grows in data set expanse and popularity. Dose #1 (vaccine label: Yago) equips DBpedia with a functional (albeit non exclusive) Data Dictionary component courtesy of the Yago Class Hierarchy .

When the DBpedia & Yago integration took place last year (around WWW2007, Banff) there was a little, but costly omission that occurred: nobody sought to load the Yago Class Hierarchy into the Virtuoso's Inference Engine :-(

Anyway, the Class Hierarchy has now been loaded into the Virtuoso's inference engine (as Virtuoso Inference Rules) and the following queries are now feasible using the live Virtuoso based DBpedia instance hosted by OpenLink Software:

define input:inference 'http://dbpedia.org/resource/inference/rules/yago#'
PREFIX rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#>
PREFIX dbpedia: <http://dbpedia.org/property/>
PREFIX yago: <http://dbpedia.org/class/yago/>

SELECT ?s
FROM <http://dbpedia.org>
WHERE {
?s a yago:Publication106589574 .
?s dbpedia:name "The Lord of the Rings"@en .
}

-- Variant of query with Virtuoso's Full Text Index extension: bif:contains

SELECT ?s ?n
FROM <http://dbpedia.org>
WHERE {
?s a yago:Publication106589574 .
?s dbpedia:name ?n .
?n bif:contains 'Lord and Rings'
}

-- Retrieve all individuals instances of the Book Class
PREFIX rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#>
PREFIX dbpedia: <http://dbpedia.org/property/>
PREFIX yago: <http://dbpedia.org/class/yago/>

SELECT ?s ?n
FROM <http://dbpedia.org>
WHERE {
?s a yago:Book106410904 .
?s dbpedia:name ?n .
}

-- Retrieve all individuals instances of Publication Class which should include all Books.
define input:inference 'http://dbpedia.org/resource/inference/rules/yago#'
PREFIX rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#>
PREFIX dbpedia: <http://dbpedia.org/property/>
PREFIX yago: <http://dbpedia.org/class/yago/>

SELECT ?s ?n
FROM <http://dbpedia.org>
WHERE {
?s a yago:Publication106589574 .
?s dbpedia:name ?n .
}

Note: you can also move the inference pragmas to the Virtuoso Sever side i.e place the inference rules in a server instance config file, thereby negating the need to place "define input:inference 'http://dbpedia.org/resource/inference/rules/yago#'" pragmas directly in your SPARQL queries.