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SPARQL query to extract Wikipedia infobox data using DBPedia

How to extract the infobox data for a Wikipedia page using DBPedia? It would be great if any one can directly provide me with the query I can run at the DBPedia end-point to get the infobox contents as a key-value pair of property-value. For example,

Querying for Mahatma Gandhi should return something like:

Birth Date : 1869-10-02
Birth Name : Mohandas K. Gandhi,
Resting Place : Delhi,
Death Date : 1948-01-30

Since this is only a small part of the project I am working on, I am avoiding getting into the details of SPARQL, etc.

Solution

  • Assuming that your URI is dbpedia.org/resource/Mahatma_Gandhi (coming from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi) you can simply do:

    select * {
<http://dbpedia.org/resource/Mahatma_Gandhi> dbpedia-owl:birthDate ?birthDate;
dbpedia-owl:birthName ?name;
dbpedia-owl:restingPlace ?restingPlace;
dbpedia-owl:deathDate ?deathDate
 }

    try it on http://dbpedia.org/sparql (direct link)

    if you will query for other resources I suggest you something like this 

    select * {
<http://dbpedia.org/resource/Mahatma_Gandhi> dbpedia-owl:birthName ?name.
OPTIONAL{<http://dbpedia.org/resource/Mahatma_Gandhi> dbpedia-owl:birthDate ?birthDate}
OPTIONAL{<http://dbpedia.org/resource/Mahatma_Gandhi> dbpedia-owl:restingPlace ?restingPlace}
OPTIONAL{<http://dbpedia.org/resource/Mahatma_Gandhi> dbpedia-owl:deathDate ?deathDate}
}