On 2/26/16 3:42 PM, Stas Malyshev wrote:
Hi!
These are used as placeholders for the meta-values "unknown value" and "no value" aren't they ?
Oh, right! I had not considered it to be possible that any subclass of statement would use "unknown value". All classes could at least be
Yes, bnodes are unknown values.
They are identifiers that provide indefinite pronoun functionality [1], in regards to RDF Language based sentences/statements.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indefinite_pronoun -- Indefinite pronouns [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_typology -- What RDF statements/sentences are about