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 -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen Founder & CEO OpenLink Software Company Web: http://www.openlinksw.com Personal Weblog 1: http://kidehen.blogspot.com Personal Weblog 2: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen Twitter Profile: https://twitter.com/kidehen Google+ Profile: https://plus.google.com/+KingsleyIdehen/about LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/kidehen Personal WebID: http://kingsley.idehen.net/dataspace/person/kidehen#this
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