ShEx

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ShEx (Shape Expressions) is a concise, formal language for describing and validating the structure of RDF data graphs.

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Label Occurrences
ShEx canonical 2

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf RDF validation language
constraint language
shape expression language
alternativeTo SHACL NERFINISHED
appliesTo API input validation for RDF-based systems
RDF data validation
data quality checking
schema-driven RDF data design
comparedWith SHACL NERFINISHED
describes RDF graph structure
domain Linked Data NERFINISHED
Semantic Web NERFINISHED
fullName Shape Expressions NERFINISHED
hasAbbreviation ShEx NERFINISHED
hasConcept node constraint
shape
shape map
triple constraint
value class
hasFeature annotations on shapes and triple constraints
closed and open shapes
concise syntax
formal semantics
human-readable syntax
imports of external schemas
support for RDF node constraints
support for cardinality constraints
support for grouping and choice of properties
support for negation of shapes
support for recursion
support for value constraints
hasSerialization ShExC NERFINISHED
ShExJ NERFINISHED
ShExR NERFINISHED
supports RDF IRIs
RDF blank nodes
RDF datatypes
RDF literals
RDF node kinds
regular-expression-like expressions over triples
shape references
value sets
syntaxStyle JSON-based syntax
RDF-based syntax
compact text syntax
usedFor defining constraints on RDF data
validating RDF data graphs
usedIn Wikidata data modeling
knowledge graph validation

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: ShEx
Description of subject: ShEx (Shape Expressions) is a concise, formal language for describing and validating the structure of RDF data graphs.

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

SHACL relatedTo ShEx
SHACL competesWith ShEx