SPARQL Query Creator [Beta]

This tool is built for generating SPARQL queries in order to obtain data from DBpedia. The tool aims to help users who are not familiar with SPARQL but want to aggregate data for research and re-use purposes. It was inspired by the actions of "Graphing the history of philosophy" shared by Simon Raper in 2012. (https://drunksandlampposts.wordpress.com/2012/06/13/graphing-the-history-of-philosophy/)

The following template will allow you to generate a query related to the 'influencedBy' and 'influenced' properties defined by DBpedia. The categories available in the template are classes defined by DBpedia Ontology. Data sources are what DBpedia have covered (i.e., what Wikipedia has the entries for them).

For example, we can try to find (1) All artists who were born in Spain; (2) Among the philosophers who influenced whom or who was influenced by whom. This can be further limited by particular ones, for example, (3) those who were influenced by Plato; by Aristotle, or (4) by Plato and Aristotle.

You may follow the generated query text to create your own query/queries by placing other categories, properties, and different filters defined by BDpedia. Visit the Wikipedia first to see if there are items under "influences" in the infobox of an entry.

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Select Category*    (please select:) Actor Artist Athlete Philosopher Scientist Writer other, please specify:
(Note: Consult http://mappings.dbpedia.org/server/ontology/classes/ for other Classes.)

 

Filter by Birth Place  
& Select Birth Place    (please select:) China Egypt France Germany Greece Italy Spain United_Kingdom USA other, please specify:

Use filter: Influenced By    |  Influenced    |    Do not use influence filter 

• Further filter according to individuals
  • Name 1  
    E.g., Plato (Note: Name must be exactly same as that in dbpedia or wikipedia. See Plato at https://dbpedia.org/page/Plato or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato.)
    
    
  • Name 2 (optional)  
    E.g., Aristotle (Note: Name must be exactly same as that in dbpedia or wikipedia. See Aristotle at https://dbpedia.org/page/Aristotle or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotle.)

Limit Number of Results  

Output data will contain :
  URI
  Name

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* = required

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© Designed and coded by Marcia Lei Zeng , Kent State University, 2013-03-01. Last updated 2022-02-15.