What's a RDF triple?

Question

In layman\'s terms, what\'s a RDF triple?

Answer 1

It has been awhile since I worked with RDF, but here it goes :D

A triple is a subject, predicate and object.

The subject is a URI which uniquely identifies something. For example, your openid uniquely identifies you.

The object defines how the subject and object are related.

The predicate is some attribute of the subject. For example a name.

Given that, the triples form a graph S->P. Given more triplets, the graph grows. For example, you can have the same person identified as the subject of a bunch of triples, you can then connect all of the predicates through that unique subject.