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by exogen 3539 days ago
To borrow a subject matter that's currently popular on the Outpan homepage, here are the first 500 facts DBpedia knows about Donald Trump:

    SELECT DISTINCT ?property ?value WHERE {
        <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Donald_Trump> ?property ?value
    } LIMIT 500
Results: http://dbpedia.org/sparql?default-graph-uri=http%3A%2F%2Fdbp... (although, note, not every dataset they have is loaded into their SPARQL endpoint)

As you can see there's a lot of metadata type properties, but scroll down and you can see his birthdate, children, alma mater, etc.

This page is just a prettified version of that data: http://dbpedia.org/page/Donald_Trump

3 comments

So, amongst other things, he is an intellectual and an environmentalist? DB uselessness confirmed!
This is great! thanks. I will look into adding the dbpedia.org data.
Check out https://www.wikidata.org/ for another similar project with additional data! Their keys tend to be more opaque [1], but otherwise it's a very similar approach.

[1] e.g. the key for "Earth" is Q2: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2

Would you be open to having a little chat via email? hi@outpan.com