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Language and RDF Types

RDF N-Quad allows specifying a language for string values and an RDF type. Languages are written using @lang. For example

<0x01> <name> "Adelaide"@en .
<0x01> <name> "Аделаида"@ru .
<0x01> <name> "Adélaïde"@fr .
<0x01> <dgraph.type> "Person" .

See also how language strings are handled in queries.

RDF types are attached to literals with the standard ^^ separator. For example

<0x01> <age> "32"^^<xs:int> .
<0x01> <birthdate> "1985-06-08"^^<xs:dateTime> .

The supported RDF datatypes and the corresponding internal type in which the data is stored are as follows.

Storage Type Dgraph type
<xs:string> string
<xs:dateTime> dateTime
<xs:date> datetime
<xs:int> int
<xs:integer> int
<xs:boolean> bool
<xs:double> float
<xs:float> float
<geo:geojson> geo
<xs:password> password
<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string> string
<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime> dateTime
<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#date> dateTime
<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#int> int
<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#positiveInteger> int
<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#integer> int
<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#boolean> bool
<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#double> float
<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#float> float

See the section on RDF schema types to understand how RDF types affect mutations and storage.