Sparql of DbPedia based upon name not subject - sparql

Question

I am trying to query dbpedia to get some people data and I don't have subjects just names of the people I want to query and their birth/death dates.
I am trying to do a query along these lines. I want the name, birth date, death date and thumbnail of everyone with the surname Presley. What I then intend to do is loop through the results returned and find the best match for Elvis Presley 1935-1977 which is the data I have.
PREFIX dbo: <http://dbpedia.org/ontology/>
SELECT ?Name ?thumbnail ?birthDate ?deathDate WHERE {
{
dbo:name ?Name ;
dbo:birthDate ?birthDate ;
dbo:birthDate ?deathDate ;
dbo:thumbnail ?thumbnail ;
FILTER contains(?Name#en, "Presley")
}
What is the best way to construct my sparql query?
UPDATE:
I have put together this query which seems to work to some extent but I don't entirely understand it, and I can't figure out the contains, but it does at least run and return results.
PREFIX rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#>
PREFIX foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/>
PREFIX dbo: <http://dbpedia.org/ontology/>
SELECT ?subject ?thumbnail ?birthdate ?deathdate WHERE {
{
?subject rdfs:label "Elvis Presley"#en ;
dbo:thumbnail ?thumbnail ;
dbo:birthDate ?birthdate ;
dbo:deathDate ?deathdate ;
a owl:Thing .
}
UNION
{
?altName rdfs:label "Elvis Presley"#en ;
dbo:thumbnail ?thumbnail ;
dbo:birthDate ?birthdate ;
dbo:deathDate ?deathdate ;
dbo:wikiPageRedirects ?s .
}
}

Answer 1

Some entities might not have all of that information, so it's better to use optional. You can use foaf:surname to check for surname directly.
select * where {
?s foaf:surname "Presley"#en
optional { ?s dbo:name ?name }
optional { ?s dbo:birthDate ?birth }
optional { ?s dbo:deathDate ?death }
optional { ?s dbo:thumbnail ?thumb }
}