Using Groovy SPARQL with Dbpedia

GroovySparqlExample.groovy

@Grab('org.codehaus.groovy.sparql:groovy-sparql:0.5')
import groovy.sparql.*

def sparql = new Sparql(endpoint:"http://dbpedia.org/sparql")

def query = """
PREFIX foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/>
PREFIX yago: <http://dbpedia.org/class/yago/>
SELECT ?president ?name WHERE {
   ?president a yago:PresidentsOfTheUnitedStates ;
              foaf:name ?name
}
"""

sparql.eachRow query, { row ->
  println "${row.president} is ${row.name}"
}