Actors Up to 4 Hops Away

Variable length traversal

Actors up to 4 hops away from Robert Blake.

Write and execute the query to return the unique names of actors that up to 4 hops away from Robert Blake using the ACTED_IN relationship.

How many unique actors are returned in the result?

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Hint

Use the :ACTED_IN*1..4 specification for the relationship.

How many unique actors are returned?

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Solution

You can run the following query to find the answer:

cypher
MATCH (p:Person {name: 'Robert Blake'})-[:ACTED_IN*1..4]-(others:Person)
RETURN  DISTINCT others.name

How many unique actors are returned?

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Summary

In this challenge, you answered a question about a query with a varying length paths.

In the next module, you will learn about pipelining queries.