Re: DBPedia: http://dbpedia.org/resource/Marcos_Escobedo

Hi Paul,
 
You can just type following in your browser:
http://dbpedia.org/resource/Marcos_Escobedo
 
Now, you can see: http://dbpedia.org/resource/Miguel_Hidalgo_y_Costilla
against the property:   dbpedia-owl:country
 
I am just browsing the existing data on DBPedia, I am not sure whethere that happens due to reasoning or 
that is the data without reasoning.
 
You mentioned that:
"The ontology is best used just as a loose reference guide, not to reason on : )"
 
I have serious doubts on your this statement.
 
Thanks.
 


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From: Paul Wilton <paul.wilton@ontoba.com>
To: Vishal Sinha <vishal.sinha777@yahoo.com> 
Cc: David Wood <david@3roundstones.com>; "dbpedia-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net" <dbpedia-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net>; "public-lod@w3.org" <public-lod@w3.org> 
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2013 7:24 PM
Subject: Re: DBPedia: http://dbpedia.org/resource/Marcos_Escobedo


Hi Vishalif you are loading the instance data and the dbpedia ontology into a triple store that has RDFS reasoning capability then its because the ontology properties that are typically defined with domains and ranges are misused throughout the dbpedia instance data - which causes instances to be inferred to be the wrong class types. This is prevalent throughout - its a bit of a mess to say the least. 

The ontology is best used just as a loose reference guide, not to reason on : )




Paul



On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 12:56 PM, David Wood <david@3roundstones.com> wrote:

Because real data is dirty. 
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>On Feb 11, 2013, at 06:01, Vishal Sinha <vishal.sinha777@yahoo.com> wrote:
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>Hi,
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>>The following resource in DBPedia:
>><http://dbpedia.org/resource/Marcos_Escobedo> is a Person.
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>>which has a country: 
>><http://dbpedia.org/resource/Miguel_Hidalgo_y_Costilla> , but in fact that is also a Person.
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>>How is this possible?
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