this is something you might want to bring up with the Blazegraph team. Jena for example provides the apf:strSplit SPARQL function in ARQ.
On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 2:39 PM, Thad Guidry <thadgui...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Christopher, > > But I really am looking to split by whitespace, with an unknown of how many > tokens in a label. My example of human names was just to simplify, but > could be anything... not just human names. Any Wikidata QID. > Like "Castle of Saint Pée sur Nivelle" > I would want 6 columns automatically created for that. Or in JSON terms.. An > array of string objects. > { > "Castle", > "of", > "Saint", > "Pée", > "sur", > "Nivelle", > } > > This has to do with a use case of pre-processing the label names for data > ingestion into further analysis workflows. > I was hoping that I could easily leverage a bit of horsepower for free from > the WDQS for this (splitting label names)...perhaps even using the Label > service itself to do the splitting. > > The indexing service behind the scenes already stores much of this, and > stores those tokens for each label. > The problem is that we don't currently have a way to get the tokens of a > label for any particular QID and its labels in various languages. > And that's what I want to solve, either through SPARQL or an enhancement to > the Label service or something else. > If the answer is that I will have to resort to my own programmatic methods > via the dump files then so be it, I guess, but I'd rather not have to put in > the work for something that is done already behind the scenes. > > -Thad > +ThadGuidry > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata > -- --- Marco Neumann KONA _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata