diff --git a/knora/reset_triplestore.py b/knora/reset_triplestore.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..449a47151
--- /dev/null
+++ b/knora/reset_triplestore.py
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+import os
+from typing import List, Set, Dict, Tuple, Optional
+from pprint import pprint
+import argparse
+import json
+from jsonschema import validate
+from knora import KnoraError, Knora
+import sys
+
+
+def main(args):
+    # parse the arguments of the command line
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("-s", "--server", type=str, default="http://0.0.0.0:3333", help="URL of the Knora server")
+
+    args = parser.parse_args(args)
+
+    # create the knora connection object
+    con = Knora(args.server)
+    con.login(args.user, args.password)
+    con.reset_triplestore_content()
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main(sys.argv[1:])
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 5d094fe29..7b71da710 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
     entry_points={
           'console_scripts': [
               'knora-create-ontology=knora.create_ontology:main',
+              'knora-reset-triplestore=knora.reset_triplestore:main',
               'knoractl=knora.knora_ctl:cli'
           ],
     },