# DBpedia Spotlight

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

DBpedia Spotlight 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 Linking, Text Annotation, NLP, REST, and Knowledge Graph. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

REST API for automatic annotation and entity linking of natural language text to DBpedia resources. Accepts text via HTTP GET or POST and returns mentions linked to DBpedia URIs. Supports multi-language entity spotting and disambiguation. Output formats include XML, JSON, Turtle, N-Triples, and RDF/XML. Can also be self-hosted via Docker.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

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

## Other DBpedia APIs (5)

- [DBpedia SPARQL Endpoint](https://apis.io/apis/dbpedia/sparql/)
- [DBpedia Lookup Service](https://apis.io/apis/dbpedia/lookup/)
- [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 Linking, Text Annotation, NLP, REST, Knowledge Graph, Named Entity Recognition

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