Cool URIs for the Semantic Web
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Cool URIs for the Semantic Web is a W3C note that provides best-practice guidelines on designing stable, resolvable web identifiers (URIs) for publishing and linking semantic web data.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cool URIs for the Semantic Web canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T437248 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cool URIs for the Semantic Web Context triple: [W3C Technical Architecture Group, notableWork, Cool URIs for the Semantic Web]
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A.
Semantic Web
The Semantic Web is an extension of the current web in which information is given well-defined meaning through standards like RDF and OWL, enabling machines to understand, share, and reason about data across different systems.
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B.
RDF
RDF (Resource Description Framework) is a standard model for data interchange on the Web that represents information as subject–predicate–object triples to enable structured, machine-readable metadata and knowledge graphs.
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C.
OWL 2 QL
OWL 2 QL is a lightweight profile of the Web Ontology Language designed to enable efficient query answering over large datasets using standard relational database technologies.
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D.
OWL
OWL (Web Ontology Language) is a W3C-recommended semantic web language used to define and share rich, machine-interpretable ontologies on the web.
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E.
RDFS
RDFS (RDF Schema) is a semantic web vocabulary language used to define the structure, classes, and properties of RDF data.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cool URIs for the Semantic Web Target entity description: Cool URIs for the Semantic Web is a W3C note that provides best-practice guidelines on designing stable, resolvable web identifiers (URIs) for publishing and linking semantic web data.
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A.
Semantic Web
The Semantic Web is an extension of the current web in which information is given well-defined meaning through standards like RDF and OWL, enabling machines to understand, share, and reason about data across different systems.
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B.
RDF
RDF (Resource Description Framework) is a standard model for data interchange on the Web that represents information as subject–predicate–object triples to enable structured, machine-readable metadata and knowledge graphs.
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C.
OWL 2 QL
OWL 2 QL is a lightweight profile of the Web Ontology Language designed to enable efficient query answering over large datasets using standard relational database technologies.
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D.
OWL
OWL (Web Ontology Language) is a W3C-recommended semantic web language used to define and share rich, machine-interpretable ontologies on the web.
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E.
RDFS
RDFS (RDF Schema) is a semantic web vocabulary language used to define the structure, classes, and properties of RDF data.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
W3C Note
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technical report ⓘ web architecture guideline ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
clarify URI design for semantic web publishers
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promote resolvable URIs ⓘ promote stable web identifiers ⓘ support long-term URI persistence ⓘ |
| associatedWithStandardBody | W3C Technical Architecture Group ⓘ |
| describes |
best practices for designing URIs
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best practices for linking semantic web data ⓘ best practices for publishing RDF data ⓘ |
| intendedAudience |
data publishers
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semantic web practitioners ⓘ web developers ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| providesGuidelinesFor |
choosing between hash and 303 URIs
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configuring HTTP redirects for RDF resources ⓘ content negotiation for RDF and HTML ⓘ designing URI namespaces ⓘ |
| publicationType | W3C Note ⓘ |
| publisher |
World Wide Web Consortium
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surface form:
W3C
World Wide Web Consortium ⓘ |
| recommends |
avoiding technology-specific details in URIs
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keeping URIs stable over time ⓘ providing human-readable documentation for URIs ⓘ providing machine-readable RDF descriptions for URIs ⓘ using HTTP URIs for identifying resources ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume One
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HTTP range-14 issue ⓘ Linked Data principles ⓘ RDF ⓘ |
| supportsPrinciple | cool URIs don’t change ⓘ |
| title | Cool URIs for the Semantic Web self-link ⓘ |
| topic |
303 redirects
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HTTP URIs ⓘ Semantic Web ⓘ URI dereferencing ⓘ URI design ⓘ URI persistence ⓘ hash URIs ⓘ information resources ⓘ linked data ⓘ non-information resources ⓘ resource identification ⓘ web architecture ⓘ |
| useContext |
deploying semantic web applications
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designing URI schemes for ontologies ⓘ publishing linked open data ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Cool URIs for the Semantic Web Description of subject: Cool URIs for the Semantic Web is a W3C note that provides best-practice guidelines on designing stable, resolvable web identifiers (URIs) for publishing and linking semantic web data.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.