Inferred statements

[reckart]

I have refined an RDF bean which is meant to retrieve all class definitions from an OWL/RDFS ontology. That resources are classes is not always explicitly defined in the ontologies that I am trying with but rather an output of an inferencer. However, whenever RDFBeans is retrieving statements, it excludes inferred ones, e.g. :

statements = conn.getStatements(resource, predicate, null, false);

Is there are reason for excluding inferred statements?

[cyberborean]

Hi,

I think that the only reason is that it has never been tested with an inferencer. If it works, I see no problem with including inferred statements by default.

[reckart]

In some cases it is useful, e.g. when querying classes. I'll submit a pull request later.