On 2/26/16 3:42 PM, Stas Malyshev wrote:
> Hi!
>
>>> >> These are used as placeholders for the meta-values "unknown value" and
>>> >> "no value" aren't they ?
>> > 
>> > Oh, right! I had not considered it to be possible that any subclass of
>> > statement would use "unknown value". All classes could at least be
> Yes, bnodes are unknown values.

They are identifiers that provide indefinite pronoun functionality [1],
in regards to RDF Language based sentences/statements.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indefinite_pronoun -- Indefinite pronouns
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_typology -- What RDF
statements/sentences are about

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