Question: How many bands began in Birmingham?
SPARQL query: SELECT DISTINCT COUNT(?uri) WHERE {?uri <http://dbpedia.org/property/origin> <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Birmingham>  . ?uri <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#type> <http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Band>}
Answer: There are [80] bands that originated from Birmingham.