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What is the role of blank / anonymous nodes?
Sol) Blank / Anonymous nodes:-
A Blank Node represents a node in the RDF graph which is a resource to which a URI or literal is not given. It is also called a bnode. A blank node can only be used as a subject or an object for an RDF triple as stated by the RDF standard.
A Blank node is simply an indication of the existence of anything without using a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) to identify any particular thing. It is not the same as assuming that the blank node indicates an 'unknown' URI.
Some technical uses of Blank Node are as follows:-