DBpedia

DBpedia is a community project that extracts structured data from Wikipedia and publishes it as Linked Open Data on the Web. It provides a SPARQL endpoint, a Lookup Service for entity resolution, a Spotlight API for text annotation, a Live endpoint for real-time Wikipedia data, and Linked Data access via HTTP content negotiation — forming a queryable cross-linked knowledge graph of Wikipedia-derived facts.

DBpedia publishes 6 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Linked Data, Knowledge Graph, SPARQL, Semantic Web, and Wikipedia.

DBpedia’s developer surface includes documentation, GitHub presence, engineering blog, and 6 more developer resources.

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21.1/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

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6 APIs

Linked Data Knowledge Graph SPARQL Semantic Web Wikipedia Open Data Entity Linking RDF Ontology

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

Composite quality — 21.1/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 2.6 / 17

Access Clarity 5.8 / 17

Operational Transparency 4.1 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 6.3 / 9

Regulatory Posture 2.2 / 15

Agent readiness — 3/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

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APIs 6

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

DBpedia SPARQL Endpoint

Public SPARQL 1.1 query endpoint backed by OpenLink Virtuoso over the DBpedia knowledge graph derived from Wikipedia. Supports up to 10,000 result rows, 120-second query timeout...

DBpedia Lookup Service

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) an...

DBpedia Spotlight

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...

DBpedia Linked Data

HTTP Linked Data access to DBpedia resources via content negotiation. Dereference any DBpedia entity URI (http://dbpedia.org/resource/{EntityName}) using an Accept header to ret...

DBpedia Live

Real-time SPARQL endpoint and Linked Data access over continuously updated DBpedia data derived from near-real-time Wikipedia edits. SPARQL endpoint at http://live.dbpedia.org/s...

DBpedia Databus

Data cataloging, versioning, and publishing platform for DBpedia and community datasets. Exposes a SPARQL API for querying RDF metadata and a Search API for discovering publishe...

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Dbpedia Plans Pricing

2 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Dbpedia Rate Limits

7 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Dbpedia Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Dbpedia Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS

SECURITY

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHub

GitHub

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Forums

Forums

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: dbpedia
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/dbpedia/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: DBpedia
kind: open-source
description: DBpedia is a community project that extracts structured data from Wikipedia and publishes it as Linked Open Data
  on the Web. It provides a SPARQL endpoint, a Lookup Service for entity resolution, a Spotlight API for text annotation,
  a Live endpoint for real-time Wikipedia data, and Linked Data access via HTTP content negotiation — forming a queryable
  cross-linked knowledge graph of Wikipedia-derived facts.
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Free
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/dbpedia.png
tags:
- Linked Data
- Knowledge Graph
- SPARQL
- Semantic Web
- Wikipedia
- Open Data
- Entity Linking
- RDF
- Ontology
created: '2026-06-13'
modified: '2026-06-13'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: dbpedia:sparql
  name: DBpedia SPARQL Endpoint
  description: Public SPARQL 1.1 query endpoint backed by OpenLink Virtuoso over the DBpedia knowledge graph derived from
    Wikipedia. Supports up to 10,000 result rows, 120-second query timeout, and 100 requests/second per IP. Returns data in
    HTML, XML, JSON, Turtle, RDF/XML, N-Triples, CSV, and TSV. Loads the Databus Latest Core Collection for continuous updates.
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://www.dbpedia.org/resources/sparql/
  baseURL: https://dbpedia.org/sparql
  tags:
  - SPARQL
  - Knowledge Graph
  - RDF
  - Wikipedia
  - Linked Data
  - Semantic Web
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.dbpedia.org/resources/sparql/
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://www.dbpedia.org/resources/sparql/
- aid: dbpedia:lookup
  name: DBpedia Lookup Service
  description: 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.
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://www.dbpedia.org/resources/lookup/
  baseURL: https://lookup.dbpedia.org/api
  tags:
  - Entity Lookup
  - Autocomplete
  - Knowledge Graph
  - REST
  - Entity Resolution
  tags_raw:
  - Entity Lookup
  - Auto-Complete
  - Knowledge Graph
  - REST
  - Entity Resolution
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.dbpedia.org/resources/lookup/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/dbpedia/dbpedia-lookup
- aid: dbpedia:spotlight
  name: DBpedia Spotlight
  description: 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.
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://www.dbpedia.org/resources/spotlight/
  baseURL: https://api.dbpedia-spotlight.org
  tags:
  - Entity Linking
  - Text Annotation
  - NLP
  - REST
  - Knowledge Graph
  - Named Entity Recognition
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.dbpedia.org/resources/spotlight/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/dbpedia/dbpedia-spotlight-model
- aid: dbpedia:linked-data
  name: DBpedia Linked Data
  description: HTTP Linked Data access to DBpedia resources via content negotiation. Dereference any DBpedia entity URI (http://dbpedia.org/resource/{EntityName})
    using an Accept header to retrieve RDF descriptions in JSON-LD, Turtle, N3, RDF/XML, N-Triples, or HTML. Redirects via
    303 See Other to format-specific document URIs (e.g. /data/Berlin.ttl). Language-specific chapters available (e.g. http://es.dbpedia.org/resource/).
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://www.dbpedia.org/resources/linked-data/
  baseURL: https://dbpedia.org/resource
  tags:
  - Linked Data
  - RDF
  - Content Negotiation
  - Semantic Web
  - HTTP
  - Knowledge Graph
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.dbpedia.org/resources/linked-data/
- aid: dbpedia:live
  name: DBpedia Live
  description: Real-time SPARQL endpoint and Linked Data access over continuously updated DBpedia data derived from near-real-time
    Wikipedia edits. SPARQL endpoint at http://live.dbpedia.org/sparql. Provides 19 types of Wikipedia content including abstracts,
    images, person data, and external links. Processes approximately 105 Wikipedia page modifications per minute. Changesets
    available for download.
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://www.dbpedia.org/resources/live/
  baseURL: https://live.dbpedia.org/sparql
  tags:
  - Real-Time
  - SPARQL
  - Wikipedia
  - Knowledge Graph
  - Live Data
  - RDF
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.dbpedia.org/resources/live/
- aid: dbpedia:databus
  name: DBpedia Databus
  description: Data cataloging, versioning, and publishing platform for DBpedia and community datasets. Exposes a SPARQL API
    for querying RDF metadata and a Search API for discovering published datasets. Data metadata is signed with X.509 certificates
    and WebID for provenance. Programmatic access via the Databus Client tool and HTTP API. Supports automated publishing
    pipelines.
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://www.dbpedia.org/resources/databus/
  baseURL: https://databus.dbpedia.org
  tags:
  - Data Catalog
  - Dataset Discovery
  - SPARQL
  - RDF
  - Versioning
  - Open Data
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://dbpedia.gitbook.io/databus
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/dbpedia/databus
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/dbpedia-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.dbpedia.org/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.dbpedia.org/resources/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/dbpedia
- type: Forums
  url: https://forum.dbpedia.org/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.dbpedia.org/blog/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/dbpedia-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/dbpedia-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/dbpedia-finops.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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