Michael Haas wrote:
> Kingsley Idehen wrote:
>>  SELECT  count(distinct ?name)
>> WHERE { ?a a <http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Actor> .
>>                    ?a <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label> ?name
>>                }
>>
>> Gives you a total of: 98,641
>>
> <snip>
>
>>
>> We have a window of 40,000 records
>>
>
> How is 40000 records out of almost 100000 a good result? Especially 
> when obtaining large result sets was no problem two weeks ago?
I didn't say or imply you get 40K out of a 100K. I said and implied, 
that's the size of your data window.
>
> > (amply generous since you are clearly
> > crawling this data).
>
> Is that not a valid use case? Queries similar to "Give me all actors" 
> are even mentioned on dbpedia.org [0]. In any case, extracting data 
> for (computational) linguistic purposes sounds like a good use case 
> for an ontology built from Wikipedia.
>
> Also, accusing me of "crawling" this data is a bit ironic considering 
> how future DBpedia versions will be built.
You continue to miss my points, profoundly.  Please step back, and then 
re-read this entire thread, and then you will more than likely discover 
the source of my angst re. your comments.

Kingsley


>
>
> Regards,
>
> Michael
>
>
> [0] http://wiki.dbpedia.org/OnlineAccess#h28-4
>


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