Hi Robert,

On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Robert Campbell <[email protected]> wrote:
> In summary: what's the best way to translate a company name to a
> dbpedia resource

We are in the process of developing a disambiguation framework for
DBpedia that will be released still this year.
For your case it can be used to find the company that is meant in a
given string and a *context*. The context is important since there can
be more than one meaning for "Apple" (for example
http://dbpedia.org/resource/Apple_Inc.,
http://dbpedia.org/resource/Apple,
http://dbpedia.org/resource/Apple_Corps). But in a given context, the
use of the word "Apple" should be clear (for example "Apple produces
the iPad.").
So you could give our new tool a text that contains a company name
that you would like to link to a DBpedia resource and it will return
the corresponding URI. Of course, this can be done with other types of
entities as well, not only with companies.


> and what dataset actually contains the information
> shown in that URL for company resources?

The datasets are not sorted by type. To get the information of all
companies you would have to load the Ontology Instance Types and the
Ontology Infobox Properties.

Or you could ask the SPARQL end point (http://dbpedia.org/sparql):
http://dbpedia.org/sparql?default-graph-uri=http%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org&should-sponge=&query=select+distinct+*+where+{%0D%0A+%3Fcompany+%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F1999%2F02%2F22-rdf-syntax-ns%23type%3E+%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org%2Fontology%2FCompany%3E+.%0D%0A+%3Fcompany+%3Frel+%3Fobj%0D%0A}%0D%0Aoffset+200&debug=on&timeout=&format=text%2Fhtml

Best,
Max

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