How to use Sparql Contains to match similar String? - sparql

Question

I'm trying to grab some definition in dbpedia inside my thesaurus.
Although can find country that have a label that match my country, i don't get all of them. So i try to match similar label with contains but it does not work.
Any idea why.
SELECT distinct ?idbcountry ?label ?labelDb ?def
WHERE {
?idbcountry a skos:Concept .
?idbcountry rdfs:label ?label .
?idbcountry skos:inScheme iadb:IdBCountries .
FILTER(lang(?label) = "en")
Service <http://dbpedia.org/sparql> {
?s a <http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Country> .
?s rdfs:label ?labelDb .
FILTER(CONTAINS (?labelDb, ?label)).
?s rdfs:comment ?def .
FILTER(lang(?def) = "en") .
FILTER(lang(?labelDb) = "en") .
}}
The exact matching query that works is as follows:
SELECT distinct ?idbcountry ?label ?def
WHERE {
?idbcountry a skos:Concept .
?idbcountry rdfs:label ?label .
?idbcountry skos:inScheme iadb:IdBCountries .
FILTER(lang(?label) = "en")
Service <http://dbpedia.org/sparql> {
?s a <http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Country> .
?s rdfs:label ?label .
?s rdfs:comment ?def
FILTER(lang(?def) = "en")
}
}
EDIT1
Data Samples:
<http://thesaurus.iadb.org/publicthesauri/10157002136735779158437>
rdf:type skos:Concept ;
dct:created "2015-03-27T16:43:48.052-04:00"^^xsd:dateTime ;
rdfs:label "BO"#en ;
rdfs:label "Bolivia"#en ;
rdfs:label "Bolivia"#es ;
rdfs:label "Bolivie"#fr ;
rdfs:label "Bolívia"#pt ;
skos:altLabel "BO"#en ;
skos:definition "Bolivia (/bəˈlɪviə/, Spanish: [boˈliβja], Quechua: Buliwya, Aymara: Wuliwya), officially known as the Plurinational State of Bolivia (Spanish: Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia locally: [esˈtaðo pluɾinasjoˈnal de βoˈliβja]), is a landlocked country located in western-central South America."#en ;
skos:inScheme :IdBCountries ;
skos:prefLabel "Bolivia"#en ;
skos:prefLabel "Bolivia"#es ;
skos:prefLabel "Bolivie"#fr ;
skos:prefLabel "Bolívia"#pt ;
skos:topConceptOf :IdBCountries ;
<http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/focus> <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Bolivia> ;

Answer 1

Without seeing your data, we can't know why your query isn't working. However, using contains is pretty straightforward. It's just a matter of contains(string,substring). As Jeen said, we can't reproduce your problem without knowing what your data looks like, but here's an example of contains in action:
select distinct ?country ?label {
?country a dbpedia-owl:Country ; #-- select countries
rdfs:label ?label . #-- and get labels
filter langMatches(lang(?label),"en") #-- but only English labels
filter contains(?label,"land") #-- containing "land"
}
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