Dear Jean-Claude, I'm not sure exactly what you meant by the "number of distinct resources in a dataset". Is it "the total number of distinct subjects" including both IRIs and blank nodes? It seems your first query counts that. Your second query seems to count the number of triples in the dataset. You can also count total number of distinct resources or IRIs taking into account subject, predicate, objects of all triples. The VoID vocabulary defines some of those statistics. https://www.w3.org/TR/void/#statistics
Loupe, a tool that we built to explore datasets, provide some of those statistics for the DBpedia (FR) 2015-04 dataset. http://loupe.linkeddata.es/loupe/summary.jsp?dataset=frdb At the moment, we are creating a new version with DBpedia 2015-10 datasets and we will be happy to share those statistics with you in advance. Please feel free to contact us if you don't find the information you need in the current online version. Best Regards, Nandana Ontology Engineering Group (OEG) Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Madrid, Spain On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 1:49 PM, Jean-Claude Moissinac < jean-claude.moissi...@telecom-paristech.fr> wrote: > Hello > > In my work, I need to know the number of distinct resources in a dataset. > For example, with dbpedia-fr, I'm trying > select count(distinct ?r) where { ?r ?p ?l } > > And I'm always getting a timeout error message > While with > select count(?r) where { ?r ?p ?l } > I'm getting > 185404575 > > Is it a good way to know about such size? > > -- > Jean-Claude Moissinac > >
