private IRI executeRule(final Rule r, final IRI inputIRI) {
    try {
      PelletOptions.USE_ANNOTATION_SUPPORT = true;

      PelletOptions.TREAT_ALL_VARS_DISTINGUISHED = controller.isTreatAllVariablesDistinguished();

      QueryEngineType type = (QueryEngineType) controller.getQueryEngineType();

      final QueryExecution qe;
      final ByteArrayOutputStream w = new ByteArrayOutputStream();

      final Query qSelect = getSelectExampleQuery(r.getQuery());

      if (type.toPellet() != null) {
        final OWLOntology queryOntology = getInputOntologyForRule(inputIRI);

        final PelletReasoner reasoner =
            PelletReasonerFactory.getInstance().createReasoner(queryOntology);

        log.info("Ontology size: " + reasoner.getKB().getInfo());

        final Dataset ds = kb2ds(reasoner.getKB());

        final QueryExecution qeSelect =
            SparqlDLExecutionFactory.create(qSelect, ds, null, type.toPellet());

        final ResultSet rs = qeSelect.execSelect();
        controller.setSelect(r, rs.getResultVars(), ResultSetFormatter.toList(rs));

        qe =
            SparqlDLExecutionFactory.create(
                r.getQuery(), kb2ds(reasoner.getKB()), null, type.toPellet());
        qe.execConstruct().write(w);
      } else {
        final ByteArrayOutputStream w2 = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
        final Model model = ModelFactory.createDefaultModel();
        try {
          controller
              .getOWLOntologyManager()
              .saveOntology(queryOntology, new TurtleOntologyFormat(), w2);
          model.read(new ByteArrayInputStream(w2.toByteArray()), "", "TURTLE");

          final QueryExecution qeSelect = QueryExecutionFactory.create(qSelect, model);

          final ResultSet rs = qeSelect.execSelect();
          controller.setSelect(r, rs.getResultVars(), ResultSetFormatter.toList(rs));

          qe = QueryExecutionFactory.create(r.getQuery(), model);
          qe.execConstruct().write(w);
        } catch (OWLOntologyStorageException e) {
          // TODO Auto-generated catch block
          e.printStackTrace();
        }
      }

      final IRI outputIRI = getOntologyIRIForRuleName(r.getName());

      // loaded generated ontology
      final OWLOntology generatedOntology =
          controller
              .getOWLOntologyManager()
              .loadOntologyFromOntologyDocument(new ByteArrayInputStream(w.toByteArray()));
      controller.updateOntology(
          generatedOntology,
          outputIRI,
          inputIRI,
          controller.getRuleSpec().getResultFile(r).toURI());
      controller.setStatus("Rule " + r.getName() + " successfully executed");
      return outputIRI;
    } catch (OWLOntologyCreationException e1) {
      controller.setStatus(e1.getMessage());
      return null;
    }
  }