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## UK Land Registry — Price Paid Linked Data API + SPARQL (landregistry.data.gov.uk)

Probe — the generic REST convention, a bare `limit` param:
```
curl -sD - -H "Accept: application/json" \
  "https://landregistry.data.gov.uk/data/ppi/transaction-record.json?limit=2"
```
Result: `HTTP/1.1 400`, **`Content-Type: application/json`**, but the body is an HTML "Sorry" page
(pink background, inline `<style>`) saying `unrecognised short name or literal: limit` — the
Content-Type header claims JSON while the actual bytes are HTML, and the real cause is specific to
this platform: the Linked Data API treats unprefixed query param names as candidate RDF property
"short names" from its own vocabulary config, not as generic REST parameters. `limit` isn't a
registered short name, so it is rejected the same way an unknown RDF predicate would be, not with
a generic "bad parameter" message.

Probe — the platform's actual reserved parameter, underscore-prefixed:
```
curl -sD - -H "Accept: application/json" \
  "https://landregistry.data.gov.uk/data/ppi/transaction-record.json?_pageSize=2"
```
Result: `HTTP/1.1 200`, real JSON (`"format":"linked-data-api","version":"0.2"`), with
`first`/`next`/`isPartOf` pagination links already built into the response body (`_page=0` etc.) —
every reserved control parameter on this API uses the underscore prefix (`_pageSize`, `_page`); a
bare name is never "ignored," it is actively mis-parsed as RDF vocabulary and refused.

Probe — the companion SPARQL endpoint, a trivial generic query:
```
curl -sD - -G "https://landregistry.data.gov.uk/landregistry/query" \
  --data-urlencode "query=SELECT * WHERE { ?s ?p ?o } LIMIT 2" \
  -H "Accept: application/sparql-results+json"
```
Result: `HTTP/1.1 200`, standard SPARQL JSON results (`head.vars`, `results.bindings`) — here
`LIMIT` (SPARQL's own keyword, inside the query body, not a URL query param) works exactly as
expected; the gotcha above is specific to the REST/Linked-Data-API surface's URL parameters, not
to SPARQL itself. The two interfaces (REST JSON and SPARQL) sit on the same dataset but have
completely different parameter grammars and must not be mixed.

How observed: 2026-10-05, 06:23:08–06:23:21Z, curl 8, GET only, no key (both surfaces are public).

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