The document contains 5 SPARQL queries performed on DBpedia to retrieve information about people, locations, and solo artists. Query 1 finds all people born in Paris, Query 2 filters those born after 1970, Query 3 finds solo singers born in London, Query 4 finds people born in Brest using regex filtering, and Query 5 finds solo artists with concert tours of over 200 shows. The document also provides links to resources on querying DBpedia and using SPARQL to find Bart Simpson's blackboard gags from The Simpsons TV show, but notes this particular query was not completed within the allotted time.

1. SPARQL Query!
Group: Qian, Pierre-Adrien

2. Query 1
Objective: Find all the people who were born in Paris on DBpedia
PREFIX foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/>
PREFIX : <http://dbpedia.org/resource/>
PREFIX dbpedia2: <http://dbpedia.org/property/>
PREFIX dbpedia: <http://dbpedia.org/>
PREFIX dbpedia3: <http://dbpedia.org/ontology/>
SELECT distinct ?name ?birth ?person WHERE {
?person dbpedia2:birthPlace <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Paris> .
?person dbpedia2:birthDate ?birth .
?person foaf:name ?name .
} ORDER BY ?name
Result:
Plenty of them!
ex: "René Laloux"@en1929-07-13http://dbpedia.org/resource/Ren%C3%A9_Laloux

3. Query 2
Objective: Find all the people born in Paris after 1970 by using FILTER
PREFIX foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/>
PREFIX dbpedia: <http://dbpedia.org/>
PREFIX dbpedia2: <http://dbpedia.org/property/>
PREFIX dbpedia3: <http://dbpedia.org/ontology/>
SELECT distinct ?name ?person ?birthDate WHERE {
?person dbpedia2:birthPlace <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Paris> .
?person foaf:name ?name .
?person dbpedia2:birthDate ?birthDate .
FILTER (1970 < ?birthDate)
} ORDER BY ?birthDate
Result:
"Jules de Balincourt"@enhttp://dbpedia.org/resource/Jules_de_Balincourt"1972"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#int>
"Phoebe Philo"@enhttp://dbpedia.org/resource/Phoebe_Philo"1973"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#int>
"Caroline Ducey"@enhttp://dbpedia.org/resource/Caroline_Ducey"1977"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#int>

4. Query 3
Objective: Find all the solo singer who were born in London
PREFIX dbpedia3: <http://dbpedia.org/ontology/>
SELECT distinct
?name ?birthdate ?person WHERE
{ ?person dbpedia3:birthPlace <http://dbpedia.org/resource/London> .
?person dbpedia3:birthDate ?birthdate .
?person dbpedia3:background "solo_singer"@en .
?person foaf:name ?name .
} ORDER BY ?name

5. Query 4
Objective: Find all the people born in Brest using FILTER regex
PREFIX foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/>
PREFIX dbpedia2: <http://dbpedia.org/property/>
PREFIX dbpedia: <http://dbpedia.org/>
PREFIX dbpedia3: <http://dbpedia.org/ontology/>
SELECT distinct ?name ?person ?birthPlace WHERE {
?person foaf:name ?name .
?person dbpedia2:birthPlace ?birthPlace
FILTER regex (?birthPlace, "Brest")
} ORDER BY ?name
Result :
"Alex Thepot"@enhttp://dbpedia.org/resource/Alex_Th%C3%A9pothttp://dbpedia.org/resource/Brest,_Finist%C3%A8re"Alex
Thépot"@enhttp://dbpedia.org/resource/Alex_Th%C3%A9pothttp://dbpedia.org/resource/Brest,_Finist%C3%A8re"Alexand
re Coeff"@enhttp://dbpedia.org/resource/Alexandre_Coeffhttp://dbpedia.org/resource/Brest,_Finist%C3%A8re"Alexis
Thépot"@enhttp://dbpedia.org/resource/Alex_Th%C3%A9pothttp://dbpedia.org/resource/Brest,_Finist%C3%A8re

6. Query 5
Objective: Find the solo artists who did concert tours of more than 200 shows
PREFIX dbpedia2: <http://dbpedia.org/property/>
SELECT distinct ?tour ?artist ?numberOfShows WHERE
{
?tour dbpedia2:artist ?artist .
?artist dbpedia2:background "solo_singer"@en .
?tour dbpedia2:numberOfShows ?numberOfShows .
FILTER (?numberOfShows > 200)
} ORDER BY ?numberOfShows
Several results (Bob Dylan, Cher, Lady Gaga...)

7. Query Simpsons
• Find out all the chalk gag that Bart wrote on the blackboard!
– http://www.snee.com/bobdc.blog/2008/10/learning-more-about-sparql.html
– http://www.snee.com/bobdc.blog/2007/11/querying-dbpedia.html
– http://dbpedia.org/page/Category:The_Simpsons_episodes
• We didn’t succeed in doing this within our limited working hours. So if you
are interested, try it out! These links are useful for you!