# Automating SPARQL Query Translations between DBpedia and Wikidata

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10045 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2507.10045/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 18 of its 34 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 14 Jul 2025.

## Builds on (most cited first, 18 of 18)

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- [Knowledge Graphs](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2003.02320/) (2020)
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## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [DeSQ: Decomposition-based SPARQL Query Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2606.00203/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

This paper investigates whether state-of-the-art Large Language Models (LLMs) can automatically translate SPARQL between popular Knowledge Graph (KG) schemas. We focus on translations between the DBpedia and Wikidata KG, and later on DBLP and OpenAlex KG. This study addresses a notable gap in KG interoperability research by rigorously evaluating LLM performance on SPARQL-to-SPARQL translation. Two benchmarks are assembled, where the first align 100 DBpedia-Wikidata queries from QALD-9-Plus; the second contains 100 DBLP queries aligned to OpenAlex, testing generalizability beyond encyclopaedic KGs. Three open LLMs: Llama-3-8B, DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B, and Mistral-Large-Instruct-2407 are selected based on their sizes and architectures and tested with zero-shot, few-shot, and two chain-of-thought variants. Outputs were compared with gold answers, and resulting errors were categorized. We find that the performance varies markedly across models and prompting strategies, and that translations for Wikidata to DBpedia work far better than translations for DBpedia to Wikidata.