Thank you Dave,

So, just another question: If I have to query a remote Jena dataset which
has been created by someone else, is there a way (e.g. graph naming
conventions) to know if base statements and inferred statements are stored
separately?

Thank you in advance

2016-02-12 14:47 GMT+01:00 Dave Reynolds <[email protected]>:

> Hi,
>
> On 12/02/16 13:27, Valerio Belcastro wrote:
>
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I'm using Jena(v3.0.1) to build a sematic web application.
>>
>> Suppose I need to query a Dataset
>> <
>> https://jena.apache.org/documentation/javadoc/arq/org/apache/jena/query/Dataset.html
>> >
>> (which
>> can be stored in memory, on disk, or on a remote server). This dataset can
>> contain models with inferred statements. I know that it is possible to
>> retrieve statements from that dataset using QueryExecution
>> <
>> https://jena.apache.org/documentation/javadoc/arq/org/apache/jena/query/QueryExecution.html
>> >
>> class,
>> but it also includes inferred statements.
>>
>> My question is: is there a way to exclude inferred statements when
>> querying
>> a Jena Dataset?
>>
>
> Depends on how you got those inferred statements in there.
>
> In Jena inference only takes place over models not entire datasets. An
> InfModel is a wrapper around some base model, which makes the inferences
> "appear". So if you want to query without seeing inferences then you just
> query the base model instead of the InfModel.
>
> In moving to datasets then it is up to the application how it creates
> those.
>
> What people sometimes do is create a Dataset where some graphs contain
> base statements and others contain inferences that they have materialized.
> In that case you simply choose which graph you query.
>
> Other times people just store the data along with all the materialized
> inferences in a single graph. In that case you no longer know which are
> which.
>
> Dave
>

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