The Verrijkt Koninkrijk Semantic Layer (which has gotten a small makeover) now is expanded with 13,160 links to the Dutch version of DBPedia (nl.dbpedia.org). The Named Entities that have been identified by the UvA recognizers have been converted to SKOS and are loaded in the semantic layer. The wikipedia links, also from the UvA algorithms, have been converted to owl:sameAS links to Dutch and English DBPedia. To allow for some nice SPARQL querying, I have fetched the RDF triples for the linked Dutch DBPedia concepts (interactive SPARQL endpoint at http://semanticweb.cs.vu.nl/verrijktkoninkrijk/flint/).
An example of such a nice SPARQL query is this one, which retrieves all paragraphs in Loe de Jong’s text (retrievable through the loedejongdigitaal.nl resolver) that mention a person that was (or later became) a Prime minister (limited to the first 100 results).
PREFIX dcterms: <http://purl.org/dc/terms/ >
PREFIX niod: <http://purl.org/collections/nl/niod/ >
PREFIX skos: <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core# >
PREFIX dbp-prop: <http://nl.dbpedia.org/property/ >
PREFIX dbp-res: <http://nl.dbpedia.org/resource/ >SELECT * WHERE {
?entity niod:nerClass niod:nerclass-per;
owl:sameAs ?dbpedia_entry;
niod:pRef ?pref.
?dbpedia_entry dbp-prop:functie dbp-res:Minister-president_van_Nederland.
}
LIMIT 100
Or this next one, that lists for each of the found named entities of type ‘event’ an image depicting that event.
PREFIX dcterms: <http://purl.org/dc/terms/ >
PREFIX niod: <http://purl.org/collections/nl/niod/ >
PREFIX skos: <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core# >
PREFIX dbp-prop: <http://nl.dbpedia.org/property/ >
PREFIX foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/ >SELECT DISTINCT ?event ?place WHERE {
?event niod:nerClass niod:nerclass-eve;
owl:sameAs ?dbpedia_entry;
niod:pRef ?pref.
?dbpedia_entry foaf:depiction ?picture.
}
LIMIT 100
Again, all results should be taken with a grain of salt, since many OCR, conversion and linking-errors occur. The quality of the DBPedia conversion is unknown and outside of the scope of the Verrijkt Koninkrijk project.
[update: Links have been updated to http://semanticweb.cs.vu.nl/verrijktkoninkrijk/]
