All Application Manual Name SummaryHelp

Availability::- use_module(library(semweb/rdf11)).
Source[nondet]rdf(?S, ?P, ?O)
[nondet]rdf(?S, ?P, ?O, ?G)
True if an RDF triple <S,P,O> exists, optionally in the graph G. The object O is either a resource (atom) or one of the terms listed below. The described types apply for the case where O is unbound. If O is instantiated it is converted according to the rules described with rdf_assert/3.

Triples consist of the following three terms:

  • Blank nodes are encoded by atoms that start with‘_:`.
  • IRIs appear in two notations:

    • Full IRIs are encoded by atoms that do not start with‘_:`. Specifically, an IRI term is not required to follow the IRI standard grammar.
    • Abbreviated IRI notation that allows IRI prefix aliases that are registered by rdf_register_prefix/[2,3] to be used. Their notation is Alias:Local, where Alias and Local are atoms. Each abbreviated IRI is expanded by the system to a full IRI.

  • Literals appear in two notations:
    String @ Lang
    A language-tagged string, where String is a Prolog string and Lang is an atom.
    Value ^^ Type
    A type qualified literal. For unknown types, Value is a Prolog string. If type is known, the Prolog representations from the table below are used.
    Datatype IRI Prolog term
    xsd:floatfloat
    xsd:doublefloat
    xsd:decimalfloat (1)
    xsd:integerinteger
    XSD integer sub-typesinteger
    xsd:booleantrue or false
    xsd:datedate(Y,M,D)
    xsd:dateTimedate_time(Y,M,D,HH,MM,SS) (2,3)
    xsd:gDayinteger
    xsd:gMonthinteger
    xsd:gMonthDaymonth_day(M,D)
    xsd:gYearinteger
    xsd:gYearMonthyear_month(Y,M)
    xsd:timetime(HH,MM,SS) (2)

Notes:

(1) The current implementation of xsd:decimal values as floats is formally incorrect. Future versions of SWI-Prolog may introduce decimal as a subtype of rational.

(2) SS fields denote the number of seconds. This can either be an integer or a float.

(3) The date_time structure can have a 7th field that denotes the timezone offset in seconds as an integer.

In addition, a ground object value is translated into a properly typed RDF literal using rdf_canonical_literal/2.

There is a fine distinction in how duplicate statements are handled in rdf/[3,4]: backtracking over rdf/3 will never return duplicate triples that appear in multiple graphs. rdf/4 will return such duplicate triples, because their graph term differs.

S is the subject term. It is either a blank node or IRI.
P is the predicate term. It is always an IRI.
O is the object term. It is either a literal, a blank node or IRI (except for true and false that denote the values of datatype XSD boolean).
G is the graph term. It is always an IRI.
See also
- Triple pattern querying
- xsd_number_string/2 and xsd_time_string/3 are used to convert between lexical representations and Prolog terms.
Availability::- use_module(library(semweb/rdf_db)).
Source[nondet]rdf(?Subject, ?Predicate, ?Object)
Elementary query for triples. Subject and Predicate are atoms representing the fully qualified URL of the resource. Object is either an atom representing a resource or literal(Value) if the object is a literal value. If a value of the form NameSpaceID:LocalName is provided it is expanded to a ground atom using expand_goal/2. This implies you can use this construct in compiled code without paying a performance penalty. Literal values take one of the following forms:
Atom
If the value is a simple atom it is the textual representation of a string literal without explicit type or language qualifier.
lang(LangID, Atom)
Atom represents the text of a string literal qualified with the given language.
type(TypeID, Value)
Used for attributes qualified using the rdf:datatype TypeID. The Value is either the textual representation or a natural Prolog representation. See the option convert_typed_literal(:Convertor) of the parser. The storage layer provides efficient handling of atoms, integers (64-bit) and floats (native C-doubles). All other data is represented as a Prolog record.

For literal querying purposes, Object can be of the form literal(+Query, -Value), where Query is one of the terms below. If the Query takes a literal argument and the value has a numeric type numerical comparison is performed.

plain(+Text)
Perform exact match and demand the language or type qualifiers to match. This query is fully indexed.
icase(+Text)
Perform a full but case-insensitive match. This query is fully indexed.
exact(+Text)
Same as icase(Text). Backward compatibility.
substring(+Text)
Match any literal that contains Text as a case-insensitive substring. The query is not indexed on Object.
word(+Text)
Match any literal that contains Text delimited by a non alpha-numeric character, the start or end of the string. The query is not indexed on Object.
prefix(+Text)
Match any literal that starts with Text. This call is intended for completion. The query is indexed using the skip list of literals.
ge(+Literal)
Match any literal that is equal or larger than Literal in the ordered set of literals.
gt(+Literal)
Match any literal that is larger than Literal in the ordered set of literals.
eq(+Literal)
Match any literal that is equal to Literal in the ordered set of literals.
le(+Literal)
Match any literal that is equal or smaller than Literal in the ordered set of literals.
lt(+Literal)
Match any literal that is smaller than Literal in the ordered set of literals.
between(+Literal1, +Literal2)
Match any literal that is between Literal1 and Literal2 in the ordered set of literals. This may include both Literal1 and Literal2.
like(+Pattern)
Match any literal that matches Pattern case insensitively, where the‘*’character in Pattern matches zero or more characters.

Backtracking never returns duplicate triples. Duplicates can be retrieved using rdf/4. The predicate rdf/3 raises a type-error if called with improper arguments. If rdf/3 is called with a term literal(_) as Subject or Predicate object it fails silently. This allows for graph matching goals like rdf(S,P,O),rdf(O,P2,O2) to proceed without errors.

ClioPatria (version V3.1.1-51-ga0b30a5)