Question: How many states are in the Mediterranean Basketball Association?
SPARQL query: SELECT DISTINCT COUNT(?uri) WHERE { <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Mediterranean_Basketball_Association> <http://dbpedia.org/ontology/country> ?uri  . ?uri <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#type> <http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Place>}
Answer: There are [8] countries in the Mediterranean Basketball Association.