See Clockwork Orange in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"trace": "query='\\n SELECT ?itemLabel ?itemDescription WHERE {\\n VALUES ?item { wd:Netherlands national football team }.\\n SERVICE wikibase:label {\\n bd:serviceParam\\n wikibase:language \"en,[AUTO_LANGUAGE],en\".\\n }\\n }\\n ' r.text='SPARQL-QUERY: queryStr=\\n SELECT ?itemLabel ?itemDescription WHERE {\\n VALUES ?item { wd:Netherlands national football team }.\\n SERVICE wikibase:label {\\n bd:serviceParam\\n wikibase:language \"en,[AUTO_LANGUAGE],en\".\\n }\\n }\\n \\njava.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: org.openrdf.query.MalformedQueryException: Lexical error at line 3, column 49. Encountered: \" \" (32), after : \"national\"\\n\\tat java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.report(FutureTask.java:122)\\n\\tat java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.get(FutureTask.java:206)\\n\\tat com.bigdata.rdf.sail.webapp.BigdataServlet.submitApiTask(BigdataServlet.java:292)\\n\\tat com.bigdata.rdf.sail.webapp.QueryServlet.doSparqlQuery(QueryServlet.java:678)\\n\\tat com.bigdata.rdf.sail.webapp.QueryServlet.doGet(QueryServlet.java:290)\\n\\tat com.bigdata.rdf.sail.webapp.RESTServlet.doGet(RESTServlet.java:240)\\n\\tat com.bigdata.rdf.sail.webapp.MultiTenancyServlet.doGet(MultiTenancyServlet.java:273)\\n\\tat javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:687)\\n\\tat javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:790)\\n\\tat org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.handle(ServletHolder.java:865)\\n\\tat org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1655)\\n\\tat 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org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1642)\\n\\tat org.wikidata.query.rdf.blazegraph.filters.JWTIdentityFilter.doFilter(JWTIdentityFilter.java:66)\\n\\tat org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1642)\\n\\tat org.wikidata.query.rdf.blazegraph.filters.RealAgentFilter.doFilter(RealAgentFilter.java:33)\\n\\tat org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1642)\\n\\tat org.wikidata.query.rdf.blazegraph.filters.RequestConcurrencyFilter.doFilter(RequestConcurrencyFilter.java:50)\\n\\tat org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1634)\\n\\tat org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doHandle(ServletHandler.java:533)\\n\\tat org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:146)\\n\\tat org.eclipse.jetty.security.SecurityHandler.handle(SecurityHandler.java:548)\\n\\tat org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:132)\\n\\tat org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.nextHandle(ScopedHandler.java:257)\\n\\tat org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doHandle(SessionHandler.java:1595)\\n\\tat org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.nextHandle(ScopedHandler.java:255)\\n\\tat org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doHandle(ContextHandler.java:1340)\\n\\tat org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.nextScope(ScopedHandler.java:203)\\n\\tat org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doScope(ServletHandler.java:473)\\n\\tat org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doScope(SessionHandler.java:1564)\\n\\tat org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.nextScope(ScopedHandler.java:201)\\n\\tat org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doScope(ContextHandler.java:1242)\\n\\tat org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:144)\\n\\tat 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org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.EatWhatYouKill.tryProduce(EatWhatYouKill.java:168)\\n\\tat org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.EatWhatYouKill.run(EatWhatYouKill.java:126)\\n\\tat org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.ReservedThreadExecutor$ReservedThread.run(ReservedThreadExecutor.java:366)\\n\\tat org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool.runJob(QueuedThreadPool.java:765)\\n\\tat org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool$2.run(QueuedThreadPool.java:683)\\n\\tat java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:750)\\nCaused by: org.openrdf.query.MalformedQueryException: Lexical error at line 3, column 49. Encountered: \" \" (32), after : \"national\"\\n\\tat com.bigdata.rdf.sail.sparql.Bigdata2ASTSPARQLParser.parseQuery2(Bigdata2ASTSPARQLParser.java:404)\\n\\tat com.bigdata.rdf.sail.webapp.QueryServlet$SparqlQueryTask.call(QueryServlet.java:741)\\n\\tat com.bigdata.rdf.sail.webapp.QueryServlet$SparqlQueryTask.call(QueryServlet.java:695)\\n\\tat com.bigdata.rdf.task.ApiTaskForIndexManager.call(ApiTaskForIndexManager.java:68)\\n\\tat java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)\\n\\tat java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)\\n\\tat java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)\\n\\t... 1 more\\nCaused by: com.bigdata.rdf.sail.sparql.ast.TokenMgrError: Lexical error at line 3, column 49. Encountered: \" \" (32), after : \"national\"\\n\\tat com.bigdata.rdf.sail.sparql.ast.SyntaxTreeBuilderTokenManager.getNextToken(SyntaxTreeBuilderTokenManager.java:3994)\\n\\tat com.bigdata.rdf.sail.sparql.ast.SyntaxTreeBuilder.jj_ntk(SyntaxTreeBuilder.java:9637)\\n\\tat com.bigdata.rdf.sail.sparql.ast.SyntaxTreeBuilder.InlineDataOneVar(SyntaxTreeBuilder.java:1154)\\n\\tat com.bigdata.rdf.sail.sparql.ast.SyntaxTreeBuilder.DataBlock(SyntaxTreeBuilder.java:1136)\\n\\tat com.bigdata.rdf.sail.sparql.ast.SyntaxTreeBuilder.InlineData(SyntaxTreeBuilder.java:1110)\\n\\tat com.bigdata.rdf.sail.sparql.ast.SyntaxTreeBuilder.GraphPatternNotTriples(SyntaxTreeBuilder.java:2373)\\n\\tat com.bigdata.rdf.sail.sparql.ast.SyntaxTreeBuilder.GraphPattern(SyntaxTreeBuilder.java:2047)\\n\\tat com.bigdata.rdf.sail.sparql.ast.SyntaxTreeBuilder.GroupGraphPattern(SyntaxTreeBuilder.java:1969)\\n\\tat com.bigdata.rdf.sail.sparql.ast.SyntaxTreeBuilder.WhereClause(SyntaxTreeBuilder.java:1013)\\n\\tat com.bigdata.rdf.sail.sparql.ast.SyntaxTreeBuilder.SelectQuery(SyntaxTreeBuilder.java:377)\\n\\tat com.bigdata.rdf.sail.sparql.ast.SyntaxTreeBuilder.Query(SyntaxTreeBuilder.java:328)\\n\\tat com.bigdata.rdf.sail.sparql.ast.SyntaxTreeBuilder.QueryContainer(SyntaxTreeBuilder.java:216)\\n\\tat com.bigdata.rdf.sail.sparql.ast.SyntaxTreeBuilder.parseQuery(SyntaxTreeBuilder.java:32)\\n\\tat com.bigdata.rdf.sail.sparql.Bigdata2ASTSPARQLParser.parseQuery2(Bigdata2ASTSPARQLParser.java:336)\\n\\t... 7 more\\n'"
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