What is a Wikidata Q-ID?

A Q-ID is a unique identifier for an item on Wikidata, such as Q42 for Douglas Adams, used for unambiguous entity linking and data retrieval.

Is there a limit on how many items I can retrieve?

The skill supports batching up to 50 entities per request using pipe-separated IDs and provides pagination parameters for broader searches.

Does it support languages other than English?

Yes, the skill allows you to specify language codes to search and retrieve entity labels, descriptions, and aliases in any language supported by Wikidata.

Can this skill fetch external IDs like VIAF or LCCN?

Yes, it is specifically designed to extract authority control identifiers (P-IDs) from Wikidata claims, allowing you to link entities to other library and database systems.

How do I find a specific property or P-ID?

You can use the search function with the type parameter set to 'property' to find specific Wikidata properties (P-IDs) within the structured schema.

Wikidata Search & Authority Control

Name: Wikidata Search & Authority Control
Author: kltng

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Web Scraping & Data Collection

Searches the Wikidata knowledge base to retrieve structured entity details and universal external identifiers.

The Wikidata Search skill empowers Claude to interact directly with the world's largest open knowledge base, enabling the retrieval of structured data, entity relationships, and authority control IDs like VIAF, GND, and Library of Congress. It is particularly valuable for humanities researchers, librarians, and data scientists who need to resolve entity ambiguity, verify identities, or link local datasets to global knowledge graphs using standardized identifiers (P-IDs and Q-IDs). By providing programmatic access to the Wikidata API, it streamlines the process of fetching multi-language metadata and complex claims for millions of items.

Key Features

01Support for batch entity lookups and pagination for large datasets

02Search for Wikidata entities by labels, aliases, or descriptions

03Extract external identifiers such as VIAF, ISNI, IMDb, and LCNAF

04Retrieve comprehensive entity details including claims and property values

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06Filter search results by language and entity type

Use Cases

01Resolving ambiguous historical figures to specific Wikidata Q-IDs for research data

02Enriching local database records with structured metadata and links from the Wikidata knowledge graph

03Automating the collection of bibliographic authority identifiers for library science tasks

What are Skills?·How to Install

Install with 🐟 Skill.Fish

npx skillfish add kltng/humanities-skills wikidata-search

For use in Claude.ai and ChatGPT

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