Question: Count all the awards which were presented by something located in California.
SPARQL:
SELECT DISTINCT COUNT(?uri) WHERE { ?x <http://dbpedia.org/ontology/headquarter> <http://dbpedia.org/resource/California> . ?uri <http://dbpedia.org/ontology/presenter> ?x . ?uri <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#type> <http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Award>}