ConceptNet Concepts API

openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  title: ConceptNet REST Concepts API
  description: ConceptNet is a freely available multilingual knowledge graph providing computers access to common-sense knowledge. The REST API exposes the full ConceptNet 5 knowledge graph via JSON-LD endpoints. Consumers can look up concept nodes by language and term, query edges by relation type, retrieve semantically related terms ranked by Numberbatch embedding similarity, compute pairwise relatedness scores between concepts, and normalize natural-language text into canonical ConceptNet URIs. No authentication or API key is required.
  version: '5.7'
  license:
    name: CC BY-SA 4.0
    url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
  contact:
    name: ConceptNet Users Group
    url: https://groups.google.com/g/conceptnet-users
  x-website: https://conceptnet.io
  x-github: https://github.com/commonsense/conceptnet5
servers:
- url: https://api.conceptnet.io
  description: ConceptNet public API
tags:
- name: Concepts
  description: Look up concept nodes in the knowledge graph
paths:
  /c/{language}/{term}:
    get:
      operationId: getConcept
      summary: Look up a concept node
      description: Returns a JSON-LD node object for the concept identified by language and term. The response includes all edges (assertions) connecting the concept to other concepts, paginated via offset and limit. The term may include underscores in place of spaces and an optional sense disambiguation suffix (e.g. /c/en/lead/n for the noun sense of "lead").
      tags:
      - Concepts
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/language'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/term'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/offset'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/limit'
      - name: grouped
        in: query
        description: When true, groups edges by relation type rather than returning a flat list.
        required: false
        schema:
          type: boolean
          default: false
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Concept node with edges
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ConceptNode'
              example:
                '@context':
                - http://api.conceptnet.io/ld/conceptnet5.7/context.ld.json
                '@id': /c/en/example
                edges:
                - '@id': /a/[/r/IsA/,/c/en/example/,/c/en/instance/]
                  start:
                    '@id': /c/en/example
                    label: example
                    language: en
                    term: /c/en/example
                  end:
                    '@id': /c/en/instance
                    label: instance
                    language: en
                    term: /c/en/instance
                  rel:
                    '@id': /r/IsA
                    label: IsA
                  weight: 3.46
                  license: cc:by/4.0
                  dataset: /d/verbosity
                view:
                  '@id': /c/en/example?offset=0&limit=20
                  paginatedProperty: edges
                  firstPage: /c/en/example?offset=0&limit=20
                  nextPage: /c/en/example?offset=20&limit=20
                  comment: Results 1-20 of 143
        '404':
          description: Concept not found
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
  /c/{language}/{term}/{sense}:
    get:
      operationId: getConceptSense
      summary: Look up a sense-disambiguated concept node
      description: Returns a JSON-LD node object for a specific word sense of the concept. The sense component is a part-of-speech tag (n, v, a, r) or a more specific sense identifier. For example, /c/en/lead/n returns the noun sense of "lead" while /c/en/lead/v returns the verb sense.
      tags:
      - Concepts
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/language'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/term'
      - name: sense
        in: path
        description: Part-of-speech tag or sense identifier (e.g. n, v, a, r)
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
          example: n
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/offset'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/limit'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Sense-specific concept node with edges
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ConceptNode'
        '404':
          description: Concept or sense not found
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
components:
  parameters:
    language:
      name: language
      in: path
      description: BCP-47 language code (e.g. en, fr, de, zh, ja, es)
      required: true
      schema:
        type: string
        example: en
    term:
      name: term
      in: path
      description: Concept term in the given language, with spaces replaced by underscores (e.g. french_toast, dog, run_away)
      required: true
      schema:
        type: string
        example: dog
    limit:
      name: limit
      in: query
      description: Maximum number of results to return (0-1000)
      required: false
      schema:
        type: integer
        minimum: 0
        maximum: 1000
        default: 20
    offset:
      name: offset
      in: query
      description: Number of results to skip for pagination (0-100000)
      required: false
      schema:
        type: integer
        minimum: 0
        maximum: 100000
        default: 0
  schemas:
    RelationRef:
      type: object
      description: Reference to a ConceptNet relation type
      properties:
        '@id':
          type: string
          description: Relation URI
          example: /r/IsA
        label:
          type: string
          description: Human-readable relation name
          example: IsA
    Error:
      type: object
      description: API error response
      properties:
        error:
          type: string
          description: Error type identifier
        details:
          type: string
          description: Human-readable error description
    SourceRef:
      type: object
      description: Reference to a data source or contributor
      properties:
        '@id':
          type: string
          description: Source URI
          example: /s/resource/verbosity
    ConceptRef:
      type: object
      description: Reference to a ConceptNet concept node
      properties:
        '@id':
          type: string
          description: ConceptNet URI
          example: /c/en/dog
        label:
          type: string
          description: Human-readable label
          example: dog
        language:
          type: string
          description: BCP-47 language code
          example: en
        term:
          type: string
          description: Concept URI (same as @id)
          example: /c/en/dog
        sense_label:
          type: string
          description: Part-of-speech or sense label if applicable
          example: n
    ConceptNode:
      type: object
      description: JSON-LD node object representing a ConceptNet concept
      properties:
        '@context':
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
          description: JSON-LD context URLs
          example:
          - http://api.conceptnet.io/ld/conceptnet5.7/context.ld.json
        '@id':
          type: string
          description: ConceptNet URI of the concept
          example: /c/en/dog
        edges:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Edge'
          description: List of assertions connecting this concept to others
        view:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/Pagination'
    Edge:
      type: object
      description: A single ConceptNet assertion (knowledge edge)
      properties:
        '@id':
          type: string
          description: Unique URI identifier for this edge
          example: /a/[/r/IsA/,/c/en/dog/,/c/en/animal/]
        start:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/ConceptRef'
        end:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/ConceptRef'
        rel:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/RelationRef'
        surfaceText:
          type: string
          nullable: true
          description: Natural-language sentence the assertion was derived from
          example: '[[A dog]] is a [[animal]].'
        weight:
          type: number
          format: float
          description: Confidence weight of the assertion (typically 1.0+)
          example: 3.46
        license:
          type: string
          description: Creative Commons license identifier
          example: cc:by/4.0
        dataset:
          type: string
          description: Dataset URI this assertion came from
          example: /d/verbosity
        sources:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/SourceRef'
    Pagination:
      type: object
      description: Pagination metadata for list responses
      properties:
        '@id':
          type: string
          description: URI of the current page
        paginatedProperty:
          type: string
          description: Property name that contains the paginated items
          example: edges
        firstPage:
          type: string
          description: URI of the first page
        nextPage:
          type: string
          description: URI of the next page (absent on last page)
        previousPage:
          type: string
          description: URI of the previous page (absent on first page)
        comment:
          type: string
          description: Human-readable summary of current result range
          example: Results 1-20 of 143