Wikidata:SPARQL query service/Wikidata Query Help/Result Views

WDQS interface

Tooltips when hovering SPARQL code

WDQS result display selection

Link to show script in WDQS results window after a Try It

This page describes the WDQS interface and helps you to understand the various possibilities to display results on SPARQL query service. The query example page contains many good examples you can try!

Open the WDQS interface and then:

• select your language in of the upper tool bar.
• write a valid SPARQL code in the text area.
• check your script by hovering the elements with your mouse; tooltips appear and should be consistent with what you intend to do. They adopt the language you have selected (default to english).
• then click on blue button Execute query of the sidebar to launch the request. Red square is lit in the sidebar while the command executes.
• after running a query, you can choose in the "Display" formats which result view you want to display. Depending on your query and the data type, some of the views will not be available.

Note: You can also run directly a hardcoded request via the TryIt links of this page. When it brings you directly to the result display you can always return to the source script unsing the link at the bottom of the interface.

Table (default)

Shows the result data as a table. It is the default view for results and can display every data type.

Will map every variable from the SPARQL select clause to a formatted table column.

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  Table Result
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  Table Result on small screens with flipped columns

Image Grid

Image Grid Try Out

Shows the result data as a grid with images.

Every grid item has a big picture and opens the gallery when clicking on it.

Contents an item is the formatted row data.

Variable	Data Type	Mapping	Description
*	Commons Media	Grid Item	Image columns will create a grid item.

Rows containing no image will be ignored.

It’s nonetheless possible to include no image rows in the result by modifying the sparql by including a default image in case the image variable is not bound:

  optional {
    ?item wdt:P18 ?img_ .
  }
  bind (if(bound(?img_), 
           ?img_, 
           <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/File:Profile_avatar_placeholder_large.png>) as ?image) # [[:commons:File:Profile_avatar_placeholder_large.png]] as a placeholder

Here the file commons:File:Profile avatar placeholder large.png is used as a placeholder, you can use your own.

See a complete query example using this technique.

Options

Option name	Type	Description
hide	One or more variable names (strings, starting with ?), single value or array	Don’t show these variables in the result.

Map

Shows the result data as map with OpenStreetMap data.

Variable	Data Type	Mapping	Description
*	Coordinate or Geographic shape	Map Marker	Columns will create a marker on the map. Content of that marker is the formatted row data.
?layer		Map Marker Layer	Creates a colored map layer that allows filtering.
?rgb	Color	Color Map Marker	Example 000000 for black color.

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  Map with layers Try Out
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  Map of airports in Belgium Try Out

Technically, any well-known text literal can be displayed, not just a point coordinate. Non-point geometry values are never stored on Wikidata, but they can be constructed in SPARQL using functions like CONCAT() and STRDT() – see this map of Czech railway lines for an example of LINESTRING() geometry.

Options

specify using e.g. #defaultView:Map{"hide":["?foo", "?bar"],"layer":"?bar"}, using an array when there are multiple variables.

Option name	Type	Description
hide	One or more variable names (strings, starting with ?), single value or array	Don’t show these variables in the result.
layer	One or more variable names (strings, starting with ?), single value or array	Use these variables for the map layer, instead of the default ?layerLabel, ?layer.
markercluster	boolean or object	If the value is an object, pass these options to Leaflet.markercluster, a map plugin for clustering nearby map markers. (If the value is the empty object {}, Leaflet.markercluster is enabled with its default options.) If the value is true (default for queries without map layers), Leaflet.markercluster is enabled with a special set of options that doesn’t cluster any nearby map markers (it only “spiderfies” markers with exactly identical coordinates) and attempts to replicate the default map look as much as possible. If the value is false (default for queries with map layers), Leaflet.markercluster is not enabled.

Line, Bar, Scatter and Area Chart

Shows one of these chart types.

Variable	Data Type	Mapping	Description
*	Number Label DateTime	X-Axis Y-Axis	First will be X-axis, second Y-axis
*	Label	Category / Legend Item (optional)	Will only be used after the above are mapped
*	Label	Storyboard / Animation (optional)	Will only be used after the above are mapped

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  Line Chart Try Out
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  Area Chart Try Out
• Bar Chart (Animated) Try Out
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  Scatter Chart (animated) Try Out

Bubble Chart

Bubble Chart Try Out

Shows a bubble chart where the size and the color of the bubble can configured.

When an item is provided a bubble is linked to Wikidata.org.

Variable	Data Type	Mapping
*	Label	Bubble Label
*	Number	Bubble Size
*	Item	Bubble Link (optional)
?rgb	Color	Bubble Color (optional)

Tree Map

Tree Map Try Out

Shows a zoomable tree map.

Variable	Data Type	Mapping	Description
*	Label	Label	1st label in a row will be 1st level in tree map. 2nd label will be 2nd level. 3rd label will be 3rd level etc..
*	Item	Link (optional)
*	Quantity	Size

Tree

Shows an expandable tree.

Tree Try Out

Variable	Data Type	Mapping	Description
*	Item	Node ID	First item will be a root node the following items in the same row will be nested.
*	Label	Node Label (optional)	Labels will be appended to current node.
*	Number	Node Label (optional)
*	Commons Media	Item image

Timeline

Timeline Try Out

Shows a explorable timeline.

Variable	Data Type	Mapping	Description
*	DateTime	Item Point in Time Item End Point in Time	First date in a row sets the item position in the timeline. If a second date is present a start and end date will be set.
*	Commons Media	Item image

Options

Option name	Type	Description
hide	One or more variable names (strings, starting with ?), single value or array	Don’t show these variables in the result.

Dimensions

Dimensions Try Out

Shows dimension and their links.

It also allows filtering them by selecting an axis fraction.

This type of graph is also known as parallel coordinates.

Variable	Data Type	Mapping	Description
*	Label	Dimension	Every column in the result row is mapped to a dimension
*	Number
*	DateTime

Graph

Shows an interactive graph that allow hierarchically ordering and exploring items.

Variable	Data Type	Mapping	Description
*	Item	Node ID	First item in a row of output variables will have an arrow pointing to the items in the same row.
*	Label	Node Label (optional)
*	Commons Media	Node Image (optional)
?rgb	Color	Node Color (optional)	Color of the item just before the rgb variable. Example 000000 for black color.
*	Number	Node Size (optional)
?edgeLabel	Label	Edge Label (optional)

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  Graph
• Graph browsing Abraham Lincoln (animated)

Additional Information

RDF Data Type Mapping

RDF Type	RDF Data Type	Constraint	Data Type
URI		String starts with http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q	Entity
URI		String starts with http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath	Commons Media
Literal	http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime		DateTime
Literal	http://www.opengis.net/ont/geosparql#wktLiteral		Coordinate
Literal	http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#double http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#float http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#integer http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#long http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#int http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#short http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#nonNegativeInteger http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#positiveInteger http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#unsignedLong http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#unsignedInt http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#unsignedShort http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#nonPositiveInteger http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#negativeInteger		Number
Literal		Has no RDF Data Type	Label
Literal		Has property xml:lang	Label
Literal		String matches /^[0-9A-F]{6}$/	Color

Formatting

There is special formatting for the following data types:

Data Type	Format
Entity	Link to Wikidata.org Label is shortened to wd:Qxx Explore an item (magnify icon)
DateTime	MM DD, YYYY Tooltip shows raw ISO timestamp
Commons Media	Link to Commons.Wikimedia.org Displaying Gallery ( image icon )

Mobile / Responsive

Result views are made to work on different devices and resolutions. Their appearance may change depending on the space they can use.

Embed Mode

Result views can be linked or embedded via iframes. You can get the regarding link or code by clicking Link in the above menu. See the difference: link to a query and link to a result or the embed code:

<iframe style="width:80vw; height:50vh;" scrolling="yes" frameborder="0" src="http://tinyurl.com/zwf4k2w">

Download results

Download results buttons

There are several ways to export the results of a query.

JSON, TSV and CSV are three different open-standard formats to download the data, offered under the Download tab. To get results in XML format, click on Link > SPARQL endpoint.

You can also download some of the graphic views as a SVG file: this feature works with all the views except table, image grid, timeline, graph builder, map, and graph.

Default View

The default view can be change for each SPARQL query by using a comment:

#defaultView:[NAME]

For example:

#defaultView:ImageGrid

Result view options

Result views can be configured with various options, which are specified in JSON (Q2063) format, either following the defaultView comment (see previous section) or following a separate view comment.

#defaultView:Map{"layer": "?typeLabel"}
#view:ImageGrid{"hide": "?coords"}

Title

Result views can show a title. The title can be set via a title comment.

#title:A title of your choice

List of WDQS tags

WDQS tag	Display options	Notes
#defaultView:Table	Table	default format when omitted
#defaultView:ImageGrid	Image grid
	Graph builder	access to the graph builder tool
#defaultView:Map	Map
#defaultView:LineChart	Line chart
#defaultView:BarChart	Bar chart
#defaultView:ScatterChart	Scatter chart
#defaultView:AreaChart	Area chart
#defaultView:BubbleChart	Bubble chart
#defaultView:TreeMap	Tree map
#defaultView:Tree	Tree
#defaultView:Timeline	Timeline
#defaultView:Dimensions	Dimensions
#defaultView:Graph	Graph
#title:		title of the WDQS results frame
#view:		equivalent to prefix #defaultView:

Auto language

When using the magic keyword [AUTO_LANGUAGE] it is replaced by the users language when submitting the query. This allows writing a query with where the result is displayed in the users language.

Example:

#Use language of the user for display labels and fallback to english as default
SERVICE wikibase:label {
    bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "[AUTO_LANGUAGE],en" .
}

Auto coordinates

When using the magic keyword [AUTO_COORDINATES] it is replaced by the users location when submitting the query (with clients accepting the geolocalization). This allows writing a query with the users' location.

Example:

#defaultView:Map
SELECT ?place ?coordinate_location ?dist {
SERVICE wikibase:around {
    ?place wdt:P625 ?coordinate_location.
    bd:serviceParam wikibase:center "[AUTO_COORDINATES]".
    bd:serviceParam wikibase:radius "1".
    bd:serviceParam wikibase:distance ?dist.
  }
}

Try it!