Re: weakness of embedded triples

This is roughly how Stardog supports RDF* and so far we find it sufficient
in the enterprise context. It's pretty easily understood by users
familiar with edge properties in the property graph data model, which is
one of the most important factors for us.

Cheers,
Pavel

On Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 9:54 PM Martynas Jusevičius <martynas@atomgraph.com>
wrote:

> Does RDF* need new semantics at all? Couldn't it be a syntax-level
> convention for unique triple IDs?
>
> E.g. <<s>, <p>, <o>> being syntactic sugar for
> uri(concat("urn:rdf:id:", hash(str(<s>)), hash(str(<p>)),
> hash(str(<p>)))).
>
> For example, the triple
>
> <<https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/card>
> <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/primaryTopic>
> <https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/card#i>>
>
> gives
>
> URI(CONCAT("urn:rdf:id:",
> SHA1(STR(<https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/card>)),
> SHA1(STR(<http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/primaryTopic>)),
> SHA1(STR(<https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/card#i>))))
>
> gives
>
>
> <urn:rdf:id:63874e34ff5f326e67e888f6818f72d5033ecb343cadd8c2120281d72cefce4481485c937b6a95a656beaa67c13db29f3d7be801328b7c9125976c5f>
>
> which essentially would become the "5th element", in addition to quads.
>
> On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 1:38 PM Pierre-Antoine Champin
> <pierre-antoine.champin@ercim.eu> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 14/10/2020 23:13, Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote:
> >
> > Let's make the height example even more stark.
> >
> >
> > :loisLane :believes << :clarkKent :height "6.0"^^xsd:decimal >> .
> >
> >
> > does not imply
> >
> >
> > :loisLane :believes << :clarkKent :height "6.00"^^xsd:decimal >> .
> >
> >
> > I would hope that any Tom, Dick, and Lois can realize that these two
> literals
> > are the same.
> >
> > I see your point, but this is really a matter of deciding where you put
> the boundary...
> >
> > So I would still prefer to be radical here and consider any lexical
> difference as potentially significant.
> >
> > If you want to stick to literals that have to be supported in RDF
> >
> >
> > :loisLane :believes << :clarkKent :name "Clark"@en-US >> .
> >
> >
> > does not imply
> >
> >
> > :loisLane :believes << :clarkKent :name "Clark"@en-us >> .
> >
> > Are "Clark"@en-US and "Clark"@en-us really different literals, for the
> abstract syntax??
> >
> > I would have thought they are the same (and so the implication above
> would hold).
> >
> > Reading the spec again, I realize that things are not so clear: "Lexical
> representations of language tags MAY be converted to lower case", and then
> Literal term equality requires that language tags "compare equal, character
> by character". So these 2 literals MAY be considered equal, and the
> implication MAY hold... :-/ Add to this that BCP47 explicitly state that
> language tags are case insensitive... I'd say that we are in gray area here.
> >
> >
> >
> > peter
> >
> >
> >
> > On 10/14/20 4:45 PM, Doerthe Arndt wrote:
> >
> > Dear Peter,
> >
> > you are right with both observations. The question is whether we want
> that
> > behavior or not.
> >
> > In https://w3c.github.io/rdf-star/ there is a section on referential
> opacity.
> > The main claim there is that triples are referentially opaque.
> >
> >
> > But embedded triples are much weaker than just being referntially
> opaque.  To
> > see this consider the following RDF* graph under the RDF* version of RDF
> > entailment recognizing xsd:decimal and xsd:integer.
> >
> > :loisLane :believes << :clarkKent :height "6"^^xsd:decimal >> .
> >
> > In this semantics "6"^^xsd:decimal means the same as "6"^^xsd:integer so
> one
> > would expect that
> >
> > :loisLane :believes << :clarkKent :height "6"^^xsd:integer >> .
> >
> > is RDF*-entailed.
> >
> > But it is not.  There are two reasons for this.
> >
> > First, there is no requirement that satisfying interpretations for the
> first
> > graph map < :clarkKent :height "6"^^xsd:integer > to anything and if a
> > satisfying interpretation does map the triple there is no requirement
> that its
> > ITEXT mapping gives the triple its correct meaning.  (The value of ITEXT
> for
> > the triple could have the real number pi as its third element.)
> >
> > Second, "6"^^xsd:integer is a different node from "6"^^xsd:decimal. So
> even if
> > the intepretation treats the second embedded triple nicely, and thus
> gives it
> > the same meaning as the first embedded triple, they are still two
> different
> > triples and :loisLane can believe one but not the other.  So very little
> of
> > the semantics of RDF gets into embedded triples.
> >
> > We wanted different that different representations are treated
> differently
> > if they have the same meaning. The reason for that is that we expected
> that
> > RDF* would also be used to make statements about triples as they were
> > stated, for example to be able to explain the reasoning performed on the
> > triples but also for simple provenance. In these cases there should be a
> > difference between
> >
> > :loisLane :believes << :clarkKent :height "6"^^xsd:decimal >> .
> >
> > and
> >
> > :loisLane :believes << :clarkKent :height "6"^^xsd:integer >>
> >
> > since we still talk about different representations.
> >
> > Each triple is, in effect, its own context.  So, in an RDFS version of
> RDF*,
> > even if :loisLane believes several triples that should imply another,
> they
> > generally don't.  For example:
> >
> > :loisLane :believes << :clarkKent rdf:type :man >> .
> > :loisLane :believes << :man rdfs:subClassOf :human >> .
> >
> > Does not imply
> >
> > :loisLane :believes << :clarkKent rdf:type :human >> .
> >
> >
> >
> > So embedded triples are incredibly weak in RDF*.   Making them useful
> will
> > likely require quite a bit of work.
> >
> > Here, "useful" depends again on your intended use. We wanted to have a
> > rather weak semantics which allows users with more complex use cases to
> add
> > their semantics. It is easier to make the semantics more complex by
> adding
> > extensions than to ignore certain parts. I for example remember that Jos
> De
> > Roo announced some time ago that his EYE reasoner supports rules on
> RDF*. Of
> > course that alone would not allow you to cover all cases, but it could be
> > very helpful in practice.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On the other hand, there are some unusual inferences that can be made in
> > RDF*.  In an RDF* version of RDFS++ it is possible to state that two
> triples
> > are the same.   The graph
> >
> > :loisLane :believes << :superman :can :fly >>.
> > << :superman :can :fly >> owl:sameAs << :clarkKent :can :fly >> .
> >
> > is consistent here and implies
> >
> > :superman owl:sameAs :clarkKent .
> > :loisLane :believes << :clarkKent :can :fly >>.
> >
> > This last case is an interesting one. We indeed wanted the triple
> >
> > :loisLane :believes << :clarkKent :can :fly >>.
> >
> > to be a consequence of your statements. The question is whether
> >
> > :superman owl:sameAs :clarkKent .
> >
> > should follow (it does indeed follow, just as you describe). We made the
> > semantics of embedded triples the way it is to be able to deal with blank
> > notes. Here, I can't give a concrete answer whether (at least to my
> > understanding) it should be that way. I will think about it (and read
> > Pierre-Antoine's thoughts in the mean time, which just arrived as well)
> and
> > come back to you.
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Doerthe
> >
> >
> >
>
>