Question: Which New England states adopted their governmental jurisdiction location symbols prior to 2003?
Answer(s):
answer: Vermont
answer: Rhode Island
answer: Connecticut
answer: New Hampshire
answer: Massachusetts
answer: Maine

SPARQL query:
PREFIX ns: <http://rdf.freebase.com/ns/>
SELECT DISTINCT ?x
WHERE {
FILTER (?x != ns:m.029jpy)
FILTER (!isLiteral(?x) OR lang(?x) = '' OR langMatches(lang(?x), 'en'))
ns:m.029jpy ns:location.location.contains ?x .
?x ns:base.biblioness.bibs_location.loc_type ?sk0 .
FILTER (str(?sk0) = "State")
?x ns:government.governmental_jurisdiction.official_symbols ?c .
?c ns:location.location_symbol_relationship.date_adopted ?num .
FILTER (?num < "2003"^^xsd:dateTime) . 
}