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What is the difference between abstract and comment in DBpedia


What is the difference between abstract and comment for any DBpedia resources? is it some one is short description than the other one?


Solution

  • DBpedia abstracts usually* include the first paragraph of a Wikipedia page as simple text. Comments are substrings of abstracts limited to two sentences.

    (*) "usually" because sometimes text extraction fails, and no abstract is produced.

    (disclaimer: I am a DBpedia developer)