# Querying the Model itself **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Created:** [March 10, 2023, 12:34am UTC](https://community.stardog.com/t/querying-the-model-itself/4290 "2023-03-10T00:34:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![shane.blake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@shane.blake](https://community.stardog.com/u/shane.blake)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2023, 12:34am UTC](https://community.stardog.com/t/querying-the-model-itself/4290/1 "2023-03-10T00:34:39Z")
Is there a way to use the Sparql endpoint to query the ontology itself - ie instead of returning the instances of the classes, the class definition itself? ---
**Author:** ![shane.blake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@shane.blake](https://community.stardog.com/u/shane.blake)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2023, 3:13am UTC](https://community.stardog.com/t/querying-the-model-itself/4290/2 "2023-03-10T03:13:50Z")
Issue between me and keyboard - you can query the model as if it is any other set of triples. ---
**Author:** ![PaulJackson](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.stardog.com/pauljackson/32/243_2.png) [@PaulJackson](https://community.stardog.com/u/PaulJackson)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2023, 12:48pm UTC](https://community.stardog.com/t/querying-the-model-itself/4290/3 "2023-03-13T12:48:45Z")
The key is to disable reasoning when performing the query. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/stardog/original/2X/e/ed66b48a616f505106a4acde3c9cee7e6da9bc67.svg) [@system](https://community.stardog.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2023, 11:07pm UTC](https://community.stardog.com/t/querying-the-model-itself/4290/4 "2023-04-10T23:07:06Z")
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