Dbpedia sparql gives empty result to my query, what is wrong? - sparql

Question

I'm doing sparql query in this site.
It gives me an empty result, what is wrong with my query?
prefix foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/>
select * where {
?s rdf:type foaf:Person.
} LIMIT 100
This query is ok, but when I add the second pattern, I got empty result.
?s foaf:name 'Abraham_Robinson'.
prefix foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/>
select * where {
?s rdf:type foaf:Person.
?s foaf:name 'Abraham_Robinson'.
} LIMIT 100
How to correct my query so the result includes this record:
http://dbpedia.org/resource/Abraham_Robinson

Answer 1

I guess Kingsley misread this as a freetext search, rather than a simple string comparison.
The query Kingsley posted and linked earlier delivers no solution, for the same reasons as the original query failed, as identified in the comment by AKSW, i.e. --
foaf:name values don't generally replaces spaces with underscores as in the original value; i.e., 'Abraham_Robinson' should have been 'Abraham Robinson'
foaf:name strings are typically langtagged, and it is in this case, so that actually needs to be 'Abraham Robinson'#en
Incorporating AKSW's fixes with this line ?s foaf:name 'Abraham Robinson'#en., the query works.
All that said -- you may prefer an alternative query, which will deliver results whether or not the foaf:name value is langtagged and whether or not the spaces are replaced by underscores. This one is Virtuoso-specific, and produces results faster because the bif:contains function uses its free-text indexes, would be --
PREFIX foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/>
SELECT *
WHERE
{
?s rdf:type foaf:Person ;
foaf:name ?name .
?name bif:contains "'Abraham Robinson'" .
}
LIMIT 100
Generic SPARQL using a REGEX FILTER works against both Virtuoso and other RDF stores, but produces results more slowly because REGEX does not leverage the free-text indexes, as in --
PREFIX foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/>
SELECT *
WHERE
{
?s rdf:type foaf:Person ;
foaf:name ?name .
FILTER ( REGEX ( ?name, 'Abraham Robinson' ) ) .
}
LIMIT 100

Answer 2

The following query should work. Right now it isn't working due to a need to refresh the text index associated with this instance (currently in progress):
PREFIX foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/>
SELECT * where {
?s rdf:type foaf:Person.
?s foaf:name "'Abraham Robinson'".
}
LIMIT 100
Note how the phrase is placed within single-quotes that are within double-quotes.
If the literal content is language-tagged, as is the case in DBpedia the exact-match query would take the form (already clarified in #TallTed's response):
PREFIX foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/>
SELECT * where {
?s rdf:type foaf:Person.
?s foaf:name 'Abraham Robinson'#en.
}
LIMIT 100
This SPARQL Results Page Link should produce a solution when the index update completes.