Hello, for research purposes I'm interested in differentiating DBpedia entities into two types, those which are actual existing elements (i.e., things you can see and touch) and generalizations of elements (i.e., things which are abstractions of existing elements). Examples of the first ones could be: John Turturro, the Golden Gate Bridge, the Enola Gay bomber. Examples of generalizations could be: Football, the femur, Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber.
After reading some documentation on the DBpedia, including the latest article published, it looks to me that such difference is never made. Furthermore I wonder if it is even possible to make that difference based on the information available. Unfortunately, I do not know enough about the Wikipedia semantics to answer that. The only solution I can think of is manually tagging entities. That could be facilitated by grouping elements (e.g., every entity of class Person is an existing entity). However, other classes would require individual treatment. So my questions are these: -Is there a difference in DBpedia between existing entities and general entities? -Is there information available in the Wikipedia to make such difference? -Based on the DBpedia, is there any other method beyond manual tagging to make that difference? -Of the DBpedia Ontology, which classes could be considered as holding existing entities? Person, Place, Planet, Work, ...? I know is quite an abstract question, and not fully related with technical aspects of the DBpedia, but I think this is the place to ask. Thank you all for your time, Dario. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RSA® Conference 2012 Save $700 by Nov 18 Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev1 _______________________________________________ Dbpedia-discussion mailing list Dbpedia-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dbpedia-discussion
