DBpedia

SPARQL queries

The SPARQL endpoint for DBpedia is https://dbpedia.org/sparql.

The main namespaces of DBpedia are

`dbr:`	`http://dbpedia.org/resource/`	`dbr:…` represents a Wikipedia article page
`dbp:`	`http://dbpedia.org/property/`	Properties extracted from the raw infobox
`dbo:`	`http://dbpedia.org/ontology/`	For representations of ontologies.

dbo:abstract links a Wikipedia article to its first (textual) lines.

select
    ?abstract
{
    dbr:Zürich  dbo:abstract   ?abstract .
    filter(lang(?abstract) = 'en' )
}

rdfs:comment is (or seems to be) similar to dba:abstract, but returns a shorter text than dbo:abstract:

select
    ?comment
{
    dbr:Zürich  rdfs:comment   ?comment .
    filter(lang(?comment) = 'en' )
}

owl:sameAs can be used to find the DBpedia resource for a Wikidata item:

select
   ?sub
{
   ?sub  owl:sameAs  <http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q507459> .
}

rdfs:label

dbo:wikiPageWikiLink and dbo:wikiPageExternalLink

foaf:birthDate

select *
{
   dbr:Category:English_novels ?x ?y .
}
limit 100