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Looking for Winston_Churchill data

I cannot imagine why does this work:

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}
}

and this - NOT (empty bindings):

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

on http://live.dbpedia.org/sparql

UPD

This answer is good but when I tried to look for Vincent_van_Gogh - same problem

Solution

  • dbpedia:Mahatma_Gandhi has dbpedia-owl:birthName and dbpprop:birthName. On the other hand dbpedia:Winston_Churchill has only dbpprop:birthname (note the different capitalization).

    Not sure what the right way to deal with this is.