# DBpedia Lookup Service

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/dbpedia/lookup/  
**Provider:** DBpedia — https://apis.io/providers/dbpedia/  
**Base URL:** https://lookup.dbpedia.org/api  
**Documentation:** https://www.dbpedia.org/resources/lookup/

DBpedia Lookup Service is one of 6 APIs that [DBpedia](https://apis.io/providers/dbpedia/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Entity Lookup, Autocomplete, Knowledge Graph, REST, and Entity Resolution. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

REST API for entity retrieval and auto-complete over the DBpedia knowledge graph. Resolves plain-text keywords to DBpedia resource URIs. Supports keyword search (/api/search) and prefix/auto-complete search (/api/prefix). Query parameters include query, type (DBpedia ontology class filter), and maxResults. Responses available in XML (default) and JSON with result highlighting.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **Documentation** — https://www.dbpedia.org/resources/lookup/
- **GitHub** — https://github.com/dbpedia/dbpedia-lookup

## Other DBpedia APIs (5)

- [DBpedia SPARQL Endpoint](https://apis.io/apis/dbpedia/sparql/)
- [DBpedia Spotlight](https://apis.io/apis/dbpedia/spotlight/)
- [DBpedia Linked Data](https://apis.io/apis/dbpedia/linked-data/)
- [DBpedia Live](https://apis.io/apis/dbpedia/live/)
- [DBpedia Databus](https://apis.io/apis/dbpedia/databus/)

## Tags

Entity Lookup, Autocomplete, Knowledge Graph, REST, Entity Resolution

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/apis/dbpedia/lookup/). The API's provider profile, Kin Score and agent-readiness rating are at https://apis.io/providers/dbpedia/.