Sparql for events in dbpedia

Question

I am new to SPARQL, and trying to query event data on DBPedia whose source articles are in Dutch.

How could I query type of events, count numbers of each event type? Please advise. I am using http://dbpedia.org/sparql because http://events.dbpedia.org/sparql won't work.

Thanks in advance!

Edit: I'm adding my query as advised. Is the following the correct query to count MilitaryConflict events?

SELECT (count(distinct ?event) as ?cnt)
WHERE{?event a <http://dbpedia.org/ontology/MilitaryConflict> .
}

Answer 1

Yes, your query is correct to count entities of type dbo:MilitaryConflict.

Here are a couple other queries, starting from yours, which should help you continue...

query 1 (results)--

PREFIX  dbo:  <http://dbpedia.org/ontology/>

SELECT 
    ( COUNT (DISTINCT ?abs) AS ?cnt )
WHERE
  { ?event  a             dbo:MilitaryConflict ;
            dbo:abstract  ?abs .
    FILTER ( LANGMATCHES ( LANG(?abs) , "nl" ) )
}

-- and query 2 (results)--

PREFIX  dbo:  <http://dbpedia.org/ontology/>

SELECT 
    DISTINCT ?event ?abs 
WHERE
  { ?event  a             dbo:MilitaryConflict ;
            dbo:abstract  ?abs .
    FILTER ( LANGMATCHES ( LANG(?abs) , "nl" ) )
}

NOTE -- The "Default Graph" value in the SPARQL form (which becomes the default-graph-uri= query argument in the links you'll click above) must be left blank, to get results for all languages.