New subject: Request for SPARQL help: country Finland not showing in results

12 Sep 2019


      I am new the the list and fairly new to wikidata.
Apologies if this is the wrong place to ask for help.
The following SPARQL query does not return Finland:
SELECT ?country ?countryLabel
{
  ?country wdt:P31 wd:Q6256 .
  SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "en" }
}
ORDER BY ASC(?countryLabel)
This is despite Finland being an instance (P31) of country (Q6256):
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q33
Have I got something wrong?
Many thanks,
AJP
p.s. this query gets a list of countries the exist on cities but not as
entities being an instance of country.  Though actually most of them do
have "instance of" country.
SELECT ?country ?countryLabel {
  SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language
"[AUTO_LANGUAGE]" }
  {
    SELECT ?country WHERE {
      {
        ?city wdt:P31 wd:Q515 .
        ?city wdt:P17 ?country .
      }
      MINUS
      {
        ?country wdt:P31 wd:Q6256 .
      }
    } GROUP BY ?country
  }
} ORDER BY ?countryLabel