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SPARQL query to print the name, birthday pairs for a list of people in dbpedia

Given a list of Wikipedia article titles (people's names), how do I print the name, birthday pair for each person?

Solution

  • Here is one way to do it using the VALUES clause in SPARQL 1.1:

    PREFIX dbpedia: <http://dbpedia.org/resource/>
PREFIX dbpedia-owl: <http://dbpedia.org/ontology/>
PREFIX foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/>
SELECT ?givenName ?surname ?birth
WHERE
{      
  ?person dbpedia-owl:birthDate ?birth .      
  ?person foaf:givenName ?givenName .      
  ?person foaf:surname ?surname .      
  VALUES ?person { dbpedia:Albert_Einstein dbpedia:Max_Planck dbpedia:Marie_Curie }
}