What is the {sovereign state} for {country} of {Lisbon}
What is the paramount state of Lisbon
What is the sovereign state of Lisbon
SELECT DISTINCT ?x WHERE { resource:Lisbon property:country ?x . ?x rdf:type ontology:sovereign_state }
select distinct ?obj where { ?statement <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#subject> <http://wikidata.dbpedia.org/resource/Q597> . ?statement <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#predicate> <http://www.wikidata.org/entity/P17> . ?statement <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#object> ?obj . ?obj <http://www.wikidata.org/entity/P31> <http://wikidata.dbpedia.org/resource/Q3624078> } 
 select distinct ?obj where { wd:Q597 wdt:P17 ?obj . ?obj wdt:P31 wd:Q3624078 } 
Portugal