The problem is this: - There is a mapping for http://mappings.dbpedia.org/index.php/Mapping_en:Infobox_Geopolitical_organization which sets the type to organization - When we extracted DBpedia 3.7, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations used Infobox_Geopolitical_organization, so we extracted type organization - Now http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations used Infobox_geopolitical_organization (spelling difference) - There is no mapping for http://mappings.dbpedia.org/index.php/Mapping_en:Infobox_geopolitical_organization - Infobox_geopolitical_organization redirects to Infobox_country, so we use http://mappings.dbpedia.org/index.php/Mapping_en:Infobox_country, which sets the type to country
That's why DBpedia now says the the United Nations are a country. This won't be fixed until the next DBpedia release. Sorry. Adding to the confusion: http://dbpedia.org/resource/United_Nations already uses 3.8 data, which is not yet available for download. Christopher On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Max Jakob <max.ja...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Stefano, CCing dbpedia-discussion list, > > On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Stefano Ortona <sedan...@hotmail.it> wrote: >> i've a question about the types returned by spotlight. >> If i submit the following text: "The United Nations (UN) is based in >> Geneva.", two resources are identified (Geneva and United_Nations), now the >> DBpedia types returned for United_Nations are Organisation and >> TopicalConcept; but if i query the dbpedia sparql endpoint asking for the >> rdf:type of United_Nations other types are returned >> (Place,Country,PopulatedPlace and Thing), so where do the types returned >> come from? > > > The question is, where does the current DBpedia SPARQL end point get > its data from. As you report, the end point says United_Nations is a > Country. But the dump for the DBpedia 3.7 type information contains > United_Nations only as an Organisation: > > $ curl -s http://downloads.dbpedia.org/3.7/en/instance_types_en.nt.bz2 \ > | bzcat | grep "/United_Nations> " | cut -d' ' -f3 > <http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Organisation> > <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#Thing> > <http://schema.org/Organization> > > Cheers, > Max > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Live Security Virtual Conference > Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and > threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions > will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware > threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ > _______________________________________________ > Dbpedia-discussion mailing list > Dbpedia-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dbpedia-discussion ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Dbpedia-discussion mailing list Dbpedia-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dbpedia-discussion
