Hi,

I'm trying to get to grips with using Wikidata as a Linked Data resource, and would welcome some guidance.

Using the SPARQL end-point [1], I submit a query which looks for people:

PREFIX ps: <http://www.wikidata.org/prop/statement/>
PREFIX wd: <http://www.wikidata.org/entity/>
describe ?s where {?s ps:P31 wd:Q5 .
                                } limit 100

The results give a set of wd:statement URLs (e.g. [2]), each of which has the required 'P31 Q5' property and four others (wikibase:rank, rdf:type and a couple of 'derived from' properties).  So this looks like a simple statement, which is in some sense a property of the person I am looking for.  I would then expect to refine my SPARQL query to pick up the person about whom this statement was made, and thereby get access to their other properties.

However, when I dereference the statement URL, I find that I have magically arrived at the URL of the person themselves [3].

While this is all very clever, it leaves me at a loss as to how I can access the properties of the person using SPARQL.

Thanks,

Richard