Triples
The three parts of an RDF triple, in order.
What are subject, predicate, object?
"The Semantic Web is the goal. This is the method."
What is Linked Data?
The three words behind the letters URI.
What is Uniform Resource Identifier?
Born in Almonte, Ontario in 1861. The first game of the sport he invented was played at Springfield, Massachusetts on December 21, 1891.
Who is Dr. James Naismith?
Born in Edmonton on June 9, 1961. Went back to the future.
Who is Michael J. Fox?
In the following natural language triple: "Drizzt was created by R. A. Salvatore," this is the predicate.
What is "was created by"?
"A character string whose value is specified by the characters of which it is composed." 0399589929 is one.
What is a literal?
The most common kind of URI: one that resolves to a web resource.
What is a URL?
Shared the 1923 Nobel Prize in Medicine for the discovery of insulin at the University of Toronto.
Who is Frederick Banting?
Born in Edmonton on March 27, 1971. Captain Malcolm Reynolds of the Serenity.
Who is Nathan Fillion?
What you get when triples share nodes: eg. Drizzt leads to Salvatore, Salvatore leads to Leominster.
What is a graph?
Used as the object of a triple when the object is structured information. Has no URI. Locally unique but not globally unique.
What is a blank node?
On Wikidata, Q numbers name subjects and objects. P numbers name these.
What are predicates (properties)?
On November 8, 1946, she refused to leave the whites-only section of the Roseland Theatre in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. Since November 2018 she has been on the $10 bill.
Who is Viola Desmond?
Born in Edmonton on November 2, 1961. Her 1992 album Ingénue gave the world “Constant Craving.”
Who is k.d. lang?