Re: Blank nodes must DIE! [ was Re: Blank nodes semantics - existential variables?]

On 7/3/20 5:51 PM, Anthony Moretti wrote:
> It also has the potential to give false positives. It'll generate the 
> same ID for both people in the following graph, even though they might 
> not necessarily be the same person:
> 
>      _:person1
>      firstName: Mary
>      lastName: Smith
> 
>      _:person2
>      firstName: Mary
>      lastName: Smith

That's a perfect example of why I'm coming to think that a higher-level 
RDF language should require *every* object to have a (possibly 
composite) key and provide convenient syntax for indicating the key.

David Booth

Received on Monday, 6 July 2020 01:07:33 UTC