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Female Nobel laureates

This query returns five female Nobel laureates from QLever's Wikidata dataset across all prize categories, including Economic Sciences, with laureate labels, prize labels, and prize years, ordered from newest to oldest.

echo 'PREFIX p: <http://www.wikidata.org/prop/>
PREFIX ps: <http://www.wikidata.org/prop/statement/>
PREFIX pq: <http://www.wikidata.org/prop/qualifier/>
PREFIX wdt: <http://www.wikidata.org/prop/direct/>
PREFIX wd: <http://www.wikidata.org/entity/>
PREFIX rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#>

SELECT ?person ?personLabel ?prizeLabel ?year WHERE {
  {
    SELECT DISTINCT ?prize WHERE {
      { ?prize wdt:P279* wd:Q7191 . } # Nobel Prize
      UNION
      { BIND(wd:Q47170 AS ?prize) } # Economic Sciences
    }
  }
  ?person p:P166 [
    ps:P166 ?prize ;
    pq:P585 ?awardDate
  ] ;
    wdt:P21 wd:Q6581072 . # sex or gender: female
  BIND(YEAR(?awardDate) AS ?year)
  ?person rdfs:label ?personLabel .
  FILTER(LANG(?personLabel) = "en")
  ?prize rdfs:label ?prizeLabel .
  FILTER(LANG(?prizeLabel) = "en")
}
ORDER BY DESC(?year) ?person
LIMIT 5' |
  vitrify sparql \
  --endpoint https://qlever.dev/api/wikidata \
  --query - \
  --format csv \
  --to female-persons

female-persons/
├── query.rq
├── results.csv
└── ro-crate-metadata.json

PREFIX p: <http://www.wikidata.org/prop/>
PREFIX ps: <http://www.wikidata.org/prop/statement/>
PREFIX pq: <http://www.wikidata.org/prop/qualifier/>
PREFIX wdt: <http://www.wikidata.org/prop/direct/>
PREFIX wd: <http://www.wikidata.org/entity/>
PREFIX rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#>

SELECT ?person ?personLabel ?prizeLabel ?year WHERE {
  {
    SELECT DISTINCT ?prize WHERE {
      { ?prize wdt:P279* wd:Q7191 . } # Nobel Prize
      UNION
      { BIND(wd:Q47170 AS ?prize) } # Economic Sciences
    }
  }
  ?person p:P166 [
    ps:P166 ?prize ;
    pq:P585 ?awardDate
  ] ;
    wdt:P21 wd:Q6581072 . # sex or gender: female
  BIND(YEAR(?awardDate) AS ?year)
  ?person rdfs:label ?personLabel .
  FILTER(LANG(?personLabel) = "en")
  ?prize rdfs:label ?prizeLabel .
  FILTER(LANG(?prizeLabel) = "en")
}
ORDER BY DESC(?year) ?person
LIMIT 5

query.rq

personpersonLabelprizeLabelyear
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2633699Anne CarsonNobel Prize in Literature2026
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q114564137Mary E. BrunkowNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine2025
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q439564María Corina MachadoNobel Peace Prize2025
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5646626Han KangNobel Prize in Literature2024
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1097475Claudia GoldinPrize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel2023

results.csv

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      },
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      }
    },
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      "@id": "./",
      "@type": "Dataset",
      "author": {
        "@id": "https://vitrify.iolanta.tech"
      },
      "datePublished": "2026-10-08T21:03:45.441152809+00:00",
      "description": "SPARQL retrieval materialized by Vitrify.",
      "hasPart": [
        {
          "@id": "results.csv"
        },
        {
          "@id": "query.rq"
        }
      ],
      "license": "No license asserted by Vitrify; consult the source endpoint's terms of use.",
      "name": "results.csv",
      "publisher": {
        "@id": "https://qlever.dev/api/wikidata"
      }
    },
    {
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      "@type": "File",
      "contentSize": "496",
      "encodingFormat": "text/csv",
      "sha256": "17a696e45d0f12f490a2e0b4b4bc9e6c1735a599984016448f701faea9265d39"
    },
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    },
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      "@type": "Organization"
    },
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      "@type": "CreateAction",
      "agent": {
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      },
      "description": "HTTP 200; Accept: text/csv",
      "endTime": "2026-10-08T21:03:45.441152809+00:00",
      "identifier": "https://qlever.dev/api/wikidata",
      "instrument": {
        "@id": "https://vitrify.iolanta.tech"
      },
      "object": [
        {
          "@id": "https://qlever.dev/api/wikidata"
        },
        {
          "@id": "query.rq"
        }
      ],
      "result": {
        "@id": "results.csv"
      },
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    }
  ]
}

ro-crate-metadata.json