Re: Non-PK tables, blank nodes, and leanness

They are equivalent.
--e.

On 24 Apr 2012, at 20:54, David McNeil wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Richard Cyganiak <richard@cyganiak.de> wrote:
>   _:1 <IOU#BORROWER> "Alice".
>   _:1 <IOU#AMOUNT> 10.
>   _:2 <IOU#BORROWER> "Alice".
>   _:2 <IOU#AMOUNT> 10.
> 
> As Juan observed during the call, this graph is non-lean. RDF Semantics tells us: “Non-lean graphs have internal redundancy and express the same content as their lean subgraphs.” [1] In other words, the graph above is semantically equivalent to this one:
> 
>   _:1 <IOU#BORROWER> "Alice".
>   _:1 <IOU#AMOUNT> 10.
> 
> Richard - I may be wrong, but that is not my understanding of leanness. Furthermore I don't think the two graphs you listed above are semantically equivalent.
> 
> -David 

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