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RDF language tag with gender declension

Is there a best practice for defining a literal with a language tag and a gender declension?

I couldn't find if there is a native solution for this.

We're using SPARQL and TriG, so a pseudo example of what I'm trying to achieve would be (using TriG):

content:data2
  a k_content:Data;
  content:content "איך אתה מרגיש?"@he-male ;
  content:content "איך את מרגישה"@he-female .

Would @he-female / @he-male be a big no no? How did you address this?

Solution

  • As @AKSW suggested one approach is using an intermediate node

    content:data2
  a k_content:Data;
  content:content [
     rdf:value "איך אתה מרגיש?"@he ;
     content:declension gender:male
  ];
  content:content [
     rdf:value "איך את מרגישה"@he;
     content:declension gender:female
  ]

    Another approach is to use dedicated (sub-)properties:

    content:data2
  a k_content:Data;
  content:content-male "איך אתה מרגיש?"@he ;
  content:content-female "איך את מרגישה"@he .

    The ontology (T-Box) could contain the following:

    content:content-female rdfs:subPropertyOf content:content .
content:content-intersex rdfs:subPropertyOf content:content .
content:content-male rdfs:subPropertyOf content:content .