Can I do this in Jena? How?

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From: Kingsley Idehen <[email protected]>
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Sent: Monday, February 4, 2013 5:46 PM
Subject: Re: Inference Reqults according to DBPedia Ontology
 

On 2/4/13 2:25 AM, Vishal Sinha wrote:

Hi, 
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>I am creating a local RDF store, and storing some information in it myself. 
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>For example, 
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>- "Angela Merkel is a Chancellor" 
>- "Barack Obama is a President"
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>In DBPedia ontology it is stated that, 
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>Chancellor is subclass of Politician. President is also subclass of Politician.
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>When I make a SPARQL query to my local RDF store, I want to get inference 
>result according to DBPedia
>OWL ontology. 
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>In this case, if I ask give me all politicians, it should give me -
>Angela Merkel and Barack Obama.
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>My Question: Should I keep a copy of DBPedia ontology in my RDF store? Or what 
>else could I do?
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>Thanks.
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For inference to work the underlying axioms need to be processed. Thus, you 
will need to read the DBpedia ontology, one way or the other. 

Short answer: Yes. 


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