Wikibase/Indexing/SPARQL Query Examples

Syntax according to RDF Dump format. See also https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T86786

Further examples can be found at d:Wikidata:SPARQL query service/queries

This page is parsed by the web interface of the query service to fill its drop down of example queries.

Standard Prefixes
These are standard prefixes, however their use is optional as the query endpoint knows to resolve standard prefixes automatically. PREFIX wd:  PREFIX wdt:  PREFIX wikibase:  PREFIX p:  PREFIX ps:  PREFIX pq:  PREFIX rdfs: 

US presidents and spouses

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US presidents & causes of death

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Politicians who died of cancer (of any type)

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People born before year 1880 with no death date

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Largest cities with female mayor

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List of countries ordered by the number of their cities with female mayor

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How many states this US state borders

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Whose birthday is today?

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Who discovered the most asteroids?

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Who discovered the most planets? (with list)

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American universities founded before the states they reside in were created

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What is the relation between Terrell Buckley and Miami Dolphins?

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Properties that are defined as "qualifier only" but are used in references

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Aliases of properties which are used more than once

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WDQ queries: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:List_of_queries

French people with an article on the English Wikipedia but not on the French one

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Number of scientists per gender

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Mushers with neither a ranking in a race nor a reason for not finishing it

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Cats
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People born between 1895 and 1910 with no death date or other

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Label source #1: labels from SERVICE wikibase:label

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Label source #2: labels from rdfs:label (same items as previous sample)

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Label source #3: labels from skos:prefLabel (same items as previous sample)

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Labels added after grouping (label from SERVICE wikibase:label)

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Labels for specific languages in comparison (labels from rdfs:label)

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Syntax sample #1: basic

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Syntax sample #2: without where, with semicolon

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Syntax sample #3: slash (/)

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Syntax sample #4: subject/object inverted (^)

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Syntax sample #5: prefixes expanded

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