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Create your first RDFGraph

Throughout this example on Kùzu’s RDFGraph feature, we will use the following set of triples about students and faculty at universities, which we call UniKG.

The DDL statements to define the RDFGraph, the Turtle (.ttl) file containing the triples, and the data import (COPY FROM) commands are given below. You can copy-paste and type these commands in the Kùzu CLI shell or KùzuExplorer to replicate the examples in this documentation locally.

Creating the RDFGraph

CREATE RDFGraph UniKG;

We will use the following 14 triples stored in a uni.ttl Turtle file:

@prefix kz: <http://kuzu.io/rdf-ex#> .
@prefix rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> .
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .


kz:Waterloo a kz:City ;
      kz:name "Waterloo"@en ;
      kz:population 150000 .


kz:Adam a kz:student ;
  kz:livesIn kz:Waterloo ;
  kz:name "Adam" ;
  kz:age  30 .


kz:student rdfs:subClassOf kz:person .


kz:Karissa a kz:student ;
     kz:bornIn kz:Waterloo ;
     kz:name "Karissa" .


kz:Zhang a kz:faculty ;
   kz:name "Zhang" .


kz:faculty rdfs:subClassOf kz:person .

Data import

We assume ${PATH-TO-DIR} is the directory containing uni.ttl file:

COPY UniKG FROM "${PATH-TO-DIR}/uni.ttl";

You can double check that there are 14 triples with the following query:

MATCH (s)-[p:UniKG]->(o) RETURN count(*);

Output:

----------------
| COUNT_STAR() |
----------------
| 14           |
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Drop an RDFGraph

You can drop an RDFGraph using the following command:

DROP RDFGraph UniKG;