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Grapheneer
Grapheneer

Reputation: 937

Litte expressivity of Property Graphs compared to RDF Graphs due to lack of reification?

Is there any way to represent this in a Property Graph:

"Peter likes Anna. This information was created by Dave. Dave is a Liar. The certainty of this information is 95%."

In a RDF Graph using Reification this could look like this: RDF Graph Example

There is no way of creating relations of relations in Property Graphs right? So how else can this be represented?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 137

Answers (1)

cybersam
cybersam

Reputation: 66999

You can reify relationships as nodes. Here is a (rough) example:

(Peter:Person)-[:FEELS]->(f:Feeling {type:'likes'})-[:TOWARDS]->(Anna:Person)

(f)-[:CREATED_BY]->(Dave:Person)

(Dave)-[:HAS_PROPERTY]->(p:Property {type: 'is-a'})-[:WITH_VALUE]->(:PersonType {type:'liar'})

(p)-[:CERTAINTY]->(:Certainty {value: .95})

Upvotes: 2

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