FactGrid:Sample queries

Help:

• https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/Wikidata_Query_Help/Result_Views/en
• https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/SPARQL/FILTER

Map: all documents of a certain research interest, where from?

Looking for people

• Search all people of the same family name, sort by given names, state everyone with information about life dates and family details. Table

• Name of people who ever were a residents of place with basic personal information. Table

• Two Persons, when and where did they meet timeline
• All people with a FactGrid account by gender

Looking for documents

• All documents written by N.N. with corresponding documents. Table

• All documents sent to N.N. with corresponding documents. Table

• All documents mentioning N.N. with corresponding documents. Table

• All documents of a file listed in sequence. Table

• All documents sent from (place) by date. Table

• All documents of a specific archive and research interest by date. Table

Maps

The Illuminati correspondence on a map

Dots

All documents of a specific research interest where from? Map

All persons of a certain profession in a town Map

Lines

• The Illuminati correspondence, who wrote whom, from where, whereto

Tables

• Was a member of the Illuminati
• All guided compositions, where written? when? plus links to FactGrid transcripts.

• no functional query yet, but a first attempt is here, modeled after the "academic tree" graph in Scholia's author aspect

• all 18th-century addresses in Gotha (which have already received geo-coordinates)
• when was the Gregorian calendar introduced?

Graphs

• People and organisations

• member of the Theocratie du verbe incarnée and connected information

Timelines

• All Illuminati events by date/ tinyurl
• known membership entry points of Illuminati

Bubble Charts

Adherents of the French Prophets and their religious affiliations

• The distribution of males and females who became followers of the early 18th-century "French Prophets"
• Adherents of the French Prophets and their religious affiliation
• The Illuminati membership statements The intricate thing is that this search excludes the two 100% bubbles of Illuminati and Freemasons that are of course given with every Illuminati membership.

Grammatically intricate searches

• all places - with their respective Wikidata numbers
• Member of the Illuminati, state the primary document reference that we have for this statement
• The graduates of Gotha's Gymnasium Illustre/Ernestinum: their fathers with career information, their mothers and the fathers of the mothers (i.e. maternal grandfathers) with the respective career information] The search is intricate as it goes into related database objects and brings information located there into the table.

Looking for a statement - give it with all the qualifying statements

This search is especially useful if the data model needs to be changed. It searches the database for a particular statement and gives all the instances with the respective qualifying sub-statements:

SELECT * WHERE {
  ?s wdt:P2 wd:Q7.
  ?s p:P266 ?st. # ?s is the the statement node
  ?st ps:P266 ?o. # that simulates the predicate
  ?st ?qualifier ?value. # this is an attribute (a qualifier)
}

Filters

• all FactGrid people born between 1700 and 1710 A Filter that selects a time frame
• All members of the strict Observance in Frankfurt's Prefecture A Filter that selects an Item in a qualifying statement

Wishful thinking

• A map of all places a Person has been, using (also) the information from sender's and receiver's places
• visualisations quest on phabricator