Re: [Dbpedia-discussion] Six properties for a person's date of birth

2008-05-29 Thread Jens Lehmann
Hello, Kingsley Idehen wrote: Jens Lehmann wrote: We are completing a similar test here based on my response earlier this week. Was the test successful? I assume you are trying to load the Yago Class Hierarchy? If so, let us finish our investigation and then we will have a proper

Re: [Dbpedia-discussion] Six properties for a person's date of birth

2008-05-29 Thread Richard Light
Kingsley, Thanks for doing this: I'll have a play next week when I have a bit more time. I notice that you have set up the variants as sub-properties, rather than say owl:sameAs. Does this imply that we have, in effect, one preferred term and N non-preferred terms for each property? If so,

Re: [Dbpedia-discussion] Six properties for a person's date of birth

2008-05-23 Thread Kingsley Idehen
Jens Lehmann wrote: Hi Kingsley, Kingsley Idehen wrote: Note that Virtuoso does support inferencing for subclass and subproperty. The issue here is that no inferencing rules have been requested or created during the various data loads into Virtuoso. See:

Re: [Dbpedia-discussion] Six properties for a person's date of birth

2008-05-17 Thread Kingsley Idehen
Richard Cyganiak wrote: On 16 May 2008, at 22:06, Richard Light wrote: 1. Find the class(es) used in DBpedia of that kind of thing. For example, if you look at a couple of persons, you will find that they usually have the classes yago:Person17846 and foaf:Person. Classes in

Re: [Dbpedia-discussion] Six properties for a person's date of birth

2008-05-16 Thread robl
Yes, this could be done. The problem is that Wikipedia is huge, and there are tens of thousands of properties covering all sorts of domain. Hence we would need either an automated approach to find those duplicated properties, or lots of volunteers who go through the dataset and find them

Re: [Dbpedia-discussion] Six properties for a person's date of birth

2008-05-16 Thread Richard Cyganiak
Richard, On 16 May 2008, at 14:16, Richard Light wrote: That is, that dates of birth and death appear as different properties: p:birthplace p:birthPlace p:cityofbirth etc. I can see how this diversity arises, due to the harvesting approach used. However, (and I'm probably showing my

[Dbpedia-discussion] six properties for a person's date of birth

2008-04-04 Thread Tim Finin
I'm working on a project that's trying to use data from dbpedia to disambiguate references to people in text. One thing we are trying to figure out is the use of several properties to encode the same attribute. For example, we found that the following dbpedia properties are all used for a