# DBpedia

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/dbpedia/  
**Website:** https://www.dbpedia.org/  
**APIs profiled:** 6

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.

## Kin Score — 19.5 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 19.5).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 36.8 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 15.5 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.9 |
| Access Clarity | 28.9 |

Regulatory layer — **Government & Public Sector**: 11.1 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 3.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Free — onboarding: unknown, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (6)

- **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...

## Security (1)

- **Dbpedia Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS

## Plans (1)

- **Dbpedia Plans Pricing**

## Tags

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

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/dbpedia/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.