Not able to get Indian cities abstract from Sparql - sparql

Question

I am trying to get abstract using Sqarql with dbpedia datasets.
When I am running the following query on Virtuoso,
PREFIX dbpedia-owl: <http://dbpedia.org/ontology/>
SELECT DISTINCT ?abstract WHERE {
[ rdfs:label ?name
; dbpedia-owl:abstract ?abstract
] .
FILTER langMatches(lang(?abstract),"en")
VALUES ?name { "London"#en }
}
LIMIT 10
I am getting the result, however if I modify the name to say 'Gokarna' which is a south indian tourist spot, I am not getting any data. However I do see the resource page online on dbpedia for Gokarna(http://dbpedia.org/page/Gokarna,_India). What am I doing wrong? I need to get similar data for close to 800 indian places.

Answer 1

When you use values, you'd get only those that exactly match your string. For Gokarna, that would work for #de, #it, #fr, but not for #en, as there the label is different, as you can see also from the previous answer.
I would suggest to use contains, instead of values:
PREFIX dbpedia-owl: <http://dbpedia.org/ontology/>
SELECT DISTINCT ?abstract WHERE {
[ rdfs:label ?name
; dbpedia-owl:abstract ?abstract
] .
FILTER langMatches(lang(?abstract),"en")
FILTER langMatches(lang(?name),"en")
FILTER CONTAINS (?name, "Gokarna" )
}
LIMIT 10

Answer 2

I am not that experience with Sqarql but as much i can see in your code and checked with dbpedia library...
it is not just Gokarna. it is "Gokarna,_India".
This should work..
PREFIX dbpedia-owl: <http://dbpedia.org/ontology/>
SELECT DISTINCT ?abstract WHERE {
[ rdfs:label ?name
; dbpedia-owl:abstract ?abstract
] .
FILTER langMatches(lang(?abstract),"en")
VALUES ?name { "Gokarna,_India"#en }
}
LIMIT 10

Answer 3

If you look through the DBpedia page for Gokarna, India that you linked to, you'll notice that its rdfs:label is "Gokarna, India". But its foaf:name is just "Gokarna". This would mean you should modify your query to:
PREFIX dbpedia-owl: <http://dbpedia.org/ontology/>
SELECT DISTINCT ?abstract WHERE {
[ foaf:name ?name
; dbpedia-owl:abstract ?abstract
] .
FILTER langMatches(lang(?abstract),"en")
VALUES ?name { "Gokarna"#en }
}
LIMIT 10
Though this will return other Gokarnas too: Gokarna, Nepal, Gokarna, Bangladesh and Gokarna (film). If you want to remove these, you will have to figure out another filter (possibly dbo:country dbr:India).