Editing Reification (computer science) (section)

=== Vs. quotation ===
It is also important to note that the reification described here is not the same as "quotation" found in other languages. Instead, the reification describes the relationship between a particular instance of a triple and the resources the triple refers to. The reification can be read intuitively as saying "this RDF triple talks about these things", rather than (as in quotation) "this RDF triple has this form." For instance, in the reification example used in this section, the triple:
<syntaxhighlight lang="sparql">
  committee:membership12345   rdf:subject   person:p1 .
</syntaxhighlight>
describing the <code>rdf:subject</code> of the original statement says that the subject of the statement is the resource (the person) identified by the URIref <code>person:p1</code>. It does not state that the subject of the statement is the URIref itself (i.e., a string beginning with certain characters), as quotation would.