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Problem

GenderExtractor hardcoded three URIs, each with its own FIXME comment asking for this exact change:

// FIXME: don't use string constant, use context.ontology (or at least RdfNamespace.FOAF)
private val genderProperty = "http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/gender"
// FIXME: don't use string constant, use context.ontology (or at least RdfNamespace.RDF)
private val typeProperty = "http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#type"
// FIXME: don't use string constant, use context.ontology (or at least DBpediaNamespace.ONTOLOGY)
private val personUri = "http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Person"

Every other extractor that needs rdf:type, a FOAF property, or a dbo: class goes through context.ontology.properties(...)/context.ontology.classes(...) instead (ImageExtractor, MediaExtractor, PersondataExtractor, etc.). The hardcoded strings bypass that central registry and would silently drift if the ontology ever changed one of these URIs.

Fix

private val genderProperty = context.ontology.properties("foaf:gender")
private val typeProperty = context.ontology.properties("rdf:type").uri
private val personUri = context.ontology.classes("Person").uri

Confirmed all three keys resolve to the exact same URIs via RdfNamespace.fullUri(): "rdf:type" and "foaf:gender" carry their own rdf:/foaf: prefix, which RdfNamespace resolves to the real RDF/FOAF namespaces (both registered in RdfNamespace.scala) rather than falling back to the DBpedia ontology namespace; "Person" has no prefix, so it does fall back to that default (http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Person), matching the existing Image/Sound/Document pattern in MediaExtractor/ArticlePageExtractor. All three keys are registered entities in ontology.xml (OntologyProperty:Foaf:gender, the general rdf: namespace, OntologyClass:Person).

genderProperty keeps its OntologyProperty type (used directly as a Quad predicate, the same constructor overload ImageExtractor's foafDepictionProperty uses); typeProperty and personUri take .uri since they're compared directly against a Quad's String predicate/value fields.

No build toolchain available locally to compile-check; verified by tracing every type through Quad's constructor overloads and RdfNamespace's namespace-resolution logic instead.

Fixes #825

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Refactor
    • Gender extraction now uses vocabulary terms from the configured ontology, keeping extracted data aligned with the active ontology configuration.

GenderExtractor hardcoded three URIs that the extractor framework
already has dedicated lookups for, with FIXME comments next to each
one asking for exactly this change:

  genderProperty = "http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/gender"
  typeProperty    = "http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#type"
  personUri       = "http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Person"

Every other extractor in this codebase that needs rdf:type, a FOAF
property, or a dbo: class goes through context.ontology.properties(...)
/context.ontology.classes(...) instead (see ImageExtractor,
MediaExtractor, PersondataExtractor, etc.) -- the hardcoded strings
bypass that central registry and silently drift if the ontology ever
changes a URI.

Confirmed all three keys resolve to the exact same URIs via
RdfNamespace.fullUri(): rdf:type and foaf:gender carry their own
rdf:/foaf: prefix, which RdfNamespace resolves to the real RDF/FOAF
namespaces (http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns# and
http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/, both registered in RdfNamespace.scala)
rather than falling back to the DBpedia ontology namespace; Person
has no prefix, so it does fall back to that default
(http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Person), matching the existing
Image/Sound/Document pattern in MediaExtractor/ArticlePageExtractor.
All three keys are registered entities in ontology.xml
(OntologyProperty:Foaf:gender, OntologyProperty:Rdf:type via the
general rdf namespace, OntologyClass:Person).

genderProperty keeps its OntologyProperty type (used directly as a
Quad predicate, the same overload ImageExtractor's foafDepictionProperty
uses); typeProperty and personUri take .uri since they're compared
directly against a Quad's String predicate/value fields.

No build toolchain available locally to compile-check; verified by
tracing every type through Quad's constructor overloads and
RdfNamespace's namespace-resolution logic instead.

Fixes dbpedia#825
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GenderExtractor now resolves the foaf:gender property, rdf:type property, and Person class URI through context.ontology instead of using hard-coded URI strings.

Changes: Gender extraction

Layer / File(s) Summary
Resolve identifiers through the ontology
core/src/main/scala/org/dbpedia/extraction/mappings/GenderExtractor.scala
The extractor obtains the gender property, RDF type property, and Person class URI from context.ontology. It removes the hard-coded URI strings and related FIXME comments.

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The default English dump job can fail to start because the gender lookup is absent from its ontology. Preserve the FOAF predicate before merging.

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Title check Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: replacing hardcoded gender, RDF type, and Person identifiers with context.ontology lookups.
Linked Issues check Passed Issue #825 requires centralized ontology lookups for foaf:gender, rdf:type, and Person. GenderExtractor now uses context.ontology.properties("foaf:gender"), `context.ontology.properties("rdf…
Out of Scope Changes check Passed The whole-PR diff changes only the three declarations in GenderExtractor.scala. Each change directly implements issue #825. No unrelated production or test changes are present in the reviewed diff.
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Issue #825 requires centralized ontology lookups for foaf:gender, rdf:type, and Person. GenderExtractor now uses context.ontology.properties("foaf:gender"), context.ontology.properties("rdf:type").uri, and context.ontology.classes("Person").uri. The diff removes all three hardcoded URIs.

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private val typeProperty = "http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#type"
// FIXME: don't use string constant, use context.ontology (or at least DBpediaNamespace.ONTOLOGY)
private val personUri = "http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Person"
private val genderProperty = context.ontology.properties("foaf:gender")

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rg -n 'GenderExtractor|new GenderExtractor|GenderExtractor\\(' core/src dump/src live/src server/src
rg -n 'GenderExtractor|foaf:gender|OntologyProperty:Gender' --glob '!**/target/**' .

Repository: dbpedia/extraction-framework

Length of output: 2722


🏁 Script executed:

set -e
printf '%s\n' '--- current GenderExtractor ---'
nl -ba core/src/main/scala/org/dbpedia/extraction/mappings/GenderExtractor.scala | sed -n '1,110p'
printf '%s\n' '--- merge-base GenderExtractor ---'
git show b66cb8b976d69b17b0afa11fa701d5ae8463f42e:core/src/main/scala/org/dbpedia/extraction/mappings/GenderExtractor.scala | nl -ba | sed -n '1,105p'
printf '%s\n' '--- dump config and extractor construction references ---'
rg -n -F --glob '*.scala' -e 'extractors' -e 'GenderExtractor' dump/src core/src live/src server/src
printf '%s\n' '--- ConfigLoader relevant block ---'
nl -ba dump/src/main/scala/org/dbpedia/extraction/dump/extract/ConfigLoader.scala | sed -n '330,420p'
printf '%s\n' '--- default extraction configuration ---'
nl -ba dump/extraction.default.properties | sed -n '35,60p'
printf '%s\n' '--- ontology file configuration references ---'
rg -n -F --glob '*.properties' --glob '*.scala' -e 'ontologyFile' -e 'ontology.xml' dump core live server | head -80

Repository: dbpedia/extraction-framework

Length of output: 36047


🏁 Script executed:

set -e
printf '%s\n' '--- dump call site ---'
nl -ba dump/src/main/scala/org/dbpedia/extraction/dump/extract/ConfigLoader.scala | sed -n '250,305p'
printf '%s\n' '--- reflective extractor construction ---'
nl -ba core/src/main/scala/org/dbpedia/extraction/mappings/CompositeParseExtractor.scala | sed -n '50,80p'
printf '%s\n' '--- ontology property and Quad signatures ---'
nl -ba core/src/main/scala/org/dbpedia/extraction/ontology/OntologyProperty.scala | sed -n '1,80p'
rg -n -F --glob '*.scala' -e 'class Quad' -e 'new Quad' core/src/main/scala/org/dbpedia/extraction/transform | head -30
nl -ba core/src/main/scala/org/dbpedia/extraction/transform/Quad.scala | sed -n '1,80p'
printf '%s\n' '--- extractor class loading ---'
nl -ba core/src/main/scala/org/dbpedia/extraction/util/ExtractorUtils.scala | sed -n '35,75p'

Repository: dbpedia/extraction-framework

Length of output: 11404


Preserve the FOAF gender URI.

The checked-in ontology indexes OntologyProperty:Gender as gender, not foaf:gender. The English dump configuration enables GenderExtractor, and reflective construction evaluates this lookup before extraction starts. The lookup can therefore prevent the English extraction job from being created.

Do not replace it with context.ontology.properties("gender"). That value resolves to the DBpedia ontology URI and changes the emitted predicate. Preserve the previous FOAF URI instead.

Suggested fix
--- "a/core/src/main/scala/org/dbpedia/extraction/mappings/GenderExtractor.scala"
+++ "b/core/src/main/scala/org/dbpedia/extraction/mappings/GenderExtractor.scala"
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 
   private val pronounMap: Map[String, String] = GenderExtractorConfig.pronounsMap(language)
 
-  private val genderProperty = context.ontology.properties("foaf:gender")
+  private val genderProperty = "http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/gender"
   private val typeProperty = context.ontology.properties("rdf:type").uri
   private val personUri = context.ontology.classes("Person").uri
 
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private val genderProperty = context.ontology.properties("foaf:gender")
private val genderProperty = "http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/gender"
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line 30:
Update the genderProperty initialization in GenderExtractor to use the FOAF
gender URI directly instead of looking it up through
context.ontology.properties; preserve the emitted predicate as
http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/gender.

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