Bryan,
My understanding matches yours. I think Paul called those "intermediate
nodes":
http://mappings.dbpedia.org/index.php/Writing_Mappings/Templates#Intermediate_Node_Mapping
Cheers,
Pablo
2012/3/1 Bryan Burgers <[email protected]>
> 2012/2/29 Luis Daniel Ibáñez González <[email protected]>
>
>> That's it. I'm thinking the answer is "no", but I haven't find any
>> official word about it, so I prefere to ask.
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>
> I don't have the official answer for you, but I don't believe there are
> blank nodes in DBpedia. It appears to me that DBpedia tries to give a URI
> to everything, even if there isn't a corresponding Wikipedia article. I say
> this because I know that there are objects that can be generated using the
> DBpedia Extraction Framework that I would think would be blank nodes, but
> are actually given URIs that aren't directly derived from Wikipedia URLs.
> As an example, run the following query on live.dbpedia.org/sparql.
>
> SELECT ?tm, ?name, ?position, ?squadNumber WHERE
> {
> ?tm a dbpedia-owl:SportsTeamMember;
> dbpedia-owl:team <
> http://dbpedia.org/resource/2011%E2%80%9312_Everton_F.C._season>;
> dbpedia-owl:position ?position;
> dbpedia-owl:squadNumber ?squadNumber;
> dbpedia-owl:currentMember [ rdfs:label ?name ].
>
> }
> ORDER BY ?squadNumber
>
> (
> http://live.dbpedia.org/sparql?default-graph-uri=http%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org&query=SELECT+%3Ftm%2C+%3Fname%2C+%3Fposition%2C+%3FsquadNumber+WHERE%0D%0A%7B%0D%0A++%3Ftm+a+dbpedia-owl%3ASportsTeamMember%3B%0D%0A++++dbpedia-owl%3Ateam+%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org%2Fresource%2F2011%25E2%2580%259312_Everton_F.C._season%3E%3B%0D%0A++++dbpedia-owl%3Aposition+%3Fposition%3B%0D%0A++++dbpedia-owl%3AsquadNumber+%3FsquadNumber%3B%0D%0A++++dbpedia-owl%3AcurrentMember+%5B+rdfs%3Alabel+%3Fname+%5D.%0D%0A%0D%0A%7D%0D%0AORDER+BY+%3FsquadNumber&should-sponge=&format=text%2Fhtml&timeout=0&debug=on
> )
>
> What you get back is a list of players that played for Everton F.C. in the
> 2011–2012 season. Taking one result from that:
>
> <
> http://dbpedia.org/resource/2011%E2%80%9312_Everton_F.C._season__Leighton_Baines__1>,
> "Leighton
> Baines"@en, "DF"@en, 3
>
> Leighton Baines has a Wikipedia entry, and therefore a DBpedia URI, but
> this isn't it. This URI doesn't refer to Leighton Baines himself, but
> rather refer's to the concept of Leighton Baines playing for Everton in the
> 2011–2012 season, something that isn't noteworthy enough to have a
> Wikipedia article itself.
>
> I would fully expect this node to be some sort of blank node, but DBpedia
> gives it a URI anyway. This doesn't prove that there are no blank nodes in
> DBpedia, but it lends credence to the idea that DBpedia is trying to give
> URIs to everything, even if there isn't a Wikipedia page for it.
>
> Bryan Burgers
>
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