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Wikidata / Find entity ids by name

Find Wikidata items (Q ids) or properties (P ids) by label or alias, e.g. a company, person, place or concept, to get the id for wikidata-entities or a SPARQL query. Each hit has id, label, description, aliases match and concepturi. Up to 50 hits; no match answers search []. Data from Wikidata (wikidata.org), CC0 1.0 public domain: no attribution required, a link to Wikidata is welcome. Not endorsed by the Wikimedia Foundation. Free, no key.

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Request parameters

action query · optional
Fixed at wbsearchentities. Leave it out.
format query · optional
Fixed at json. Leave it out.
language query · optional
Language code for labels and descriptions, e.g. en, fr, de. Default en.
limit query · optional
Hits to return, 1 to 50. Default 7.
search query · required
Name to look up, e.g. Albert Einstein or Airbus.
type query · optional
What to search: item (Q ids, default), property (P ids) or lexeme.

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