Wikidata entity search — find the Wikidata item for a person, organisation, plac
Wikidata entity search — find the Wikidata item for a person, organisation, place, work or concept by name or alias, in any language, with id, label, description and which term matched; or find a property by name. Use to get the Q-id before asking for an entity's facts, identifiers or links.
Answeringour last check, 2026-10-24
1 of 1checks answered this week
622 msmedian answer time
$0.01listed price per call
$0.01price it asked us
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Endpoint
GET https://wikidata.use.x402atlas.com/search
| Category | Search and research |
|---|---|
| Provider host | wikidata.use.x402atlas.com |
| Networks | eip155:137, eip155:42161, eip155:8453, solana:5eykt4UsFv8P8NJdTREpY1vzqKqZKvdp |
| Payment schemes | exact |
| Self-reported calls, 30 days | 2 from 2 payers (the provider's figure, not ours) |
Our checks, last 30 days
| Day | Result | HTTP | Asked | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-24 | valid payment request | 402 | $0.01 | 622 ms |
Example input (from the provider)
{
"method": "GET",
"queryParams": {
"language": "en",
"limit": 3,
"query": "Apple Inc"
},
"type": "http"
}
Promised output schema (from the provider)
{
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
"properties": {
"input": {
"additionalProperties": false,
"properties": {
"method": {
"enum": [
"GET"
],
"type": "string"
},
"queryParams": {
"additionalProperties": false,
"properties": {
"language": {
"default": "en",
"description": "Wikimedia language code for labels; falls back to English, then any",
"pattern": "^[a-z]{2,3}(-[a-z0-9]{1,8})*$",
"type": "string"
},
"limit": {
"default": 10,
"maximum": 50,
"minimum": 1,
"type": "integer"
},
"query": {
"description": "Name or alias prefix",
"maxLength": 200,
"type": "string"
},
"type": {
"default": "item",
"enum": [
"item",
"property"
],
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"query"
],
"type": "object"
},
"type": {
"const": "http",
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"type",
"method"
],
"type": "object"
},
"output": {
"properties": {
"example": {
"additionalProperties": false,
"properties": {
"as_of": {
"description": "Retrieval time, UTC",
"format": "date-time",
"type": "string"
},
"caveat": {
"description": "Fixed interpretation note",
"type": "string"
},
"count": {
"type": "integer"
},
"language": {
"type": "string"
},
"modified": {
"description": "Always true: normalized, not the raw record",
"type": "boolean"
},
"note": {
"description": "Present only on a sample or empty response",
"type": "string"
},
"query": {
"type": "string"
},
"results": {
"items": {
"additionalProperties": false,
"properties": {
"aliases": {
"description": "The matched alias, when the match was an alias",
"items": {
"type": "string"
},
"type": "array"
},
"description": {
"description": "Empty when none",
"type": "string"
},
"id": {
"description": "Q-id or P-id",
"type": "string"
},
"label": {
"type": "string"
},
"match": {
"additionalProperties": false,
"properties": {
"language": {
"type": "string"
},
"text": {
"description": "The matched term",
"type": "string"
},
"type": {
"description": "label or alias",
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"type",
"language",
"text"
],
"type": "object"
},
"url": {
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"id",
"label",
"description",
"match",
"aliases",
"url"
],
"type": "object"
},
"type": "array"
},
"source": {
"additionalProperties": false,
"properties": {
"citation": {
"type": "string"
},
"name": {
"type": "string"
},
"url": {
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"name",
"url",
"citation"
],
"type": "object"
},
"type": {
"enum": [
"item",
"property"
],
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"as_of",
"source",
"caveat",
"modified",
"query",
"type",
"language",
"count",
"results"
],
"type": "object"
},
"type": {
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"type"
],
"type": "object"
}
},
"required": [
"input"
],
"type": "object"
}