Getting Dbpedia Results With Optional Properties

I'm building an app which shows information about entities of a given text. I'm using a sparqlwrapper library for Python to query DBpedia. I'm using the following code when I get a

Solution 1:

The entire optional block either matches or it doesn't. If you want to optionally match a few different things, you need multiple optional blocks, as in

SELECT * WHERE {
  ?x rdfs:label "New York"@en.
  ?x dbpedia-owl:abstract ?abstract.
  OPTIONAL { ?x dbpedia-owl:areaTotal ?areaTotal. }
  OPTIONAL { ?x dbpprop:governor ?governor. }
  OPTIONAL { ?x dbpprop:birthPlace ?birthPlace. }
  FILTER (LANG(?abstract) = 'en')
}

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