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title: "Turtle"
description: "A compact text syntax for RDF: one fact per line, written as subject, predicate, object."
topic: "Structured Data & Schema"
canonical: "https://geordy.ai/glossary/structured-data/turtle"
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# Turtle

A compact text syntax for RDF: one fact per line, written as subject, predicate, object.

Turtle (Terse RDF Triple Language) writes knowledge-graph facts as short readable lines rather than nested JSON or XML. Each line states one relationship, so a graph of facts about your organisation, products and people can be read and diffed by a person as well as a machine. It is the syntax most semantic-web tooling reads and writes by default.
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Source: https://geordy.ai/glossary/structured-data/turtle
This is a machine-readable markdown version of that page, generated by Geordy.