Re: [Dbpedia-discussion] Fwd: Your message to Dbpedia-discussion awaits moderator approval

Kavitha Srinivas wrote:
> Yes will fix URIs and load to the ftp server.  Sorry about that issue.
Not a problem. In fact, a very cool real world example of Linked Data 
Web issues e.g., why partitioning by Named Graphs is important :-)

Kingsley
> Kavitha
> On Aug 10, 2009, at 5:00 PM, Kingsley Idehen wrote:
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>> Pat Hayes wrote:
>>> This website should be taken down immediately, before it does 
>>> serious harm. It is irresponsible to publish such off-the-wall 
>>> equivalentClass assertions. The presence or absence of hierarchies, 
>>> or the similarity to tags, are completely irrelevant: the semantics 
>>> of owl:equivalentClass are quite unambiguous and are fixed 
>>> normatively by the OWL specs, so these assertions have a definite 
>>> meaning; and with that meaning they are wildly, irresponsibly and 
>>> dangerously false. Tim is treating it lightly, but this is in fact 
>>> quite a serious matter. Please DISABLE public access to this 
>>> resource until this is fixed.
>>>
>>> Pat Hayes
>> Pat,
>>
>> Note, I loaded the triples into a separate Named Graph. The data is 
>> hosted in the same Virtuoso instance that hosts DBpedia, but not part 
>> of the main DBpedia data set. The Linked Data Spaces are partitioned. 
>> This goes back to the very point I believe Alan was making re. 
>> linksets and core knowledgebase datasets. Stuff can go wrong, and I 
>> don't have to make a more problematic DELETE or UPDATE against the 
>> entire DBpedia Named Graph in the Quad Store. Thus, lets assume this 
>> needs to be scrapped, all I have to do is scrap the Named Graph 
>> hosting the broken datasets using SPARUL (Update or Delete).  On the 
>> other hand, lets assume I feel this is all fine, but you disagree 
>> vehemently, all that happens is that when I SPARQL I have the option 
>> to inference (albeit questionably) using these rules, while you 
>> don't, since its just my relatively warped "world view" (from say 
>> your view point) hosted in my own Linked Data Space that happens to 
>> be Web accessible  :-)
>>
>> Just Another nice dog-fooding example, across many vectors re. Linked 
>> Data and the Web.
>>
>> Kavitha: At the very least you need to fix the Freebase URIs, and 
>> then I would also suggest the options Tim Finn offered. Once 
>> implemented, I can just reload :-)
>>
>> Kingsley
>>>
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>>> On Aug 10, 2009, at 3:27 PM, Tim Finin wrote:
>>>
>>>> Kavitha Srinivas wrote:
>>>>> I understand what you are saying -- but some of this reflects the way
>>>>> types are associated with freebase instances.  The types are more 
>>>>> like
>>>>> 'tags' in the sense that there is no hierarchy, but each instance is
>>>>> annotated with multiple types.  So an artist would in fact be 
>>>>> annotated
>>>>> with person reliably (and probably less consistently with
>>>>> /music/artist).  Similar issues with Uyhurs, murdered children 
>>>>> etc.  The
>>>>> issue is differences in modeling granularity as well.  Perhaps a 
>>>>> better
>>>>> thing to look at are types where the YAGO types map to Wordnet 
>>>>> (this is
>>>>> usually at a coarser level of granularity).
>>>>
>>>> I think you need a different property to express the relation 
>>>> between the
>>>> freebase types and yago classes.  The whole point of grounding OWL 
>>>> in logic is
>>>> to allow people and computers to draw inferences from the OWL 
>>>> statements.  Those
>>>> statements in the dump do assert that anything that is in the set 
>>>> yago:Uyghurs
>>>> is also in the set yago:MurderedChildren and vice versa.
>>>>
>>>> Why not use rdfs:subClassOf to relate a yago class to a freebase 
>>>> type when every
>>>> member of the class is tagged with the type but not everything 
>>>> tagged with the
>>>> type is a member of the class.
>>>>
>>>> skos:narrower is another option, maybe.
>>>>
>>>>
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