Knowledge Graph Lookup

What the Knowledge Graph Lookup does

Search for a person, place, organization, or anything else with a Wikidata entry, and this tool pulls back the same kind of facts that power a search engine's knowledge panel: a short description, an image, the entity's type (instance of), and whichever key facts apply — birth/death dates and places, country, founding date, headquarters, industry, employee count, population, and an official website — plus a direct link to its Wikipedia article.

How to use it

1. Type a name into the search box — a person, company, place, or any other notable entity.
2. Click Look up. If more than one entity matches, pick the right one from the candidate list; otherwise the best match loads automatically.
3. Review the facts panel. Click View on Wikipedia or View on Wikidata for the full source.

Where the data comes from

This queries Wikidata, the open, collaboratively-edited structured-data graph behind Wikipedia — and one of the sources Google's own Knowledge Graph is itself built from. The lookup runs entirely in your browser, straight against Wikidata's public API; nothing passes through our servers, and no API key or account is required.

Scope

Facts are pulled from a fixed, common set of Wikidata properties (instance of, occupation, dates and places, country, founding date, headquarters, industry, employees, population, official website). An entity with facts outside that set — or with nothing recorded on Wikidata at all — will show a thinner panel or no result. This is Wikidata's own data, so it reflects Wikidata's current state, not Google's Knowledge Graph directly; the two are related but not identical.

Privacy

Your search term is sent directly from your browser to Wikidata's API — never to our servers.