Question: How many cars succeed the cars assembled in Canada?
SPARQL query: SELECT DISTINCT COUNT(?uri) WHERE { ?x <http://dbpedia.org/property/assembly> <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Canada> . ?x <http://dbpedia.org/ontology/predecessor> ?uri  . ?uri <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#type> <http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Automobile>}
Answer: There are [82] predecessors of the automobiles assembled in Canada.