This is the simplest of SPARQL tutorials. The tutorial’s purpose is two-fold: 1) through a set of examples, introduce the reader to the syntax of SPARQL queries, and 2) to enable the reader to initially explore any RDF triple store which is exposed as a SPARQL endpoint. SPARQL (SPARQL protocol and RDF query language) is a set of commands used to search RDF triple stores. It is modeled after SQL (s