Wikidata

Item facts and item lists

Wikidata is a free public knowledge base returning facts and item lists about people, places, organizations, and more; values may be historical and dates incomplete.

Get facts

Get a Wikidata item’s name, description, image, links, and readable facts by name. A hint helps distinguish items with similar names. Historical values may appear alongside current values when Wikidata does not mark a preferred value; partial dates retain their known precision.

Your information

HintOptional

Word in the description to distinguish similar items, for example company.

Name

Name, Wikidata item ID, or Wikidata item link, for example Microsoft.

More options

LanguageOptional

Language code for names and facts, for example en or fr.

1 credit per completed run

The same inputs also work from your code or an AI assistant. See For developers.

Example results

Marie Curie

Polish-born French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)

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Facts

{fact_name}
human
{fact_name}
female
{fact_name}
Irène Joliot-Curie
{fact_name}
Ève Curie
{fact_name}
Science Faculty of Paris
{fact_name}
Flying University
{fact_name}
University of Paris
{fact_name}
10th Secondary School named after Queen Jadwiga in Warsaw
{fact_name}
radioactivity
{fact_name}
chemistry
{fact_name}
physics
{fact_name}
radium
{fact_name}
polonium
{fact_name}
physicist
{fact_name}
chemist
{fact_name}
university teacher
{fact_name}
Panthéon
{fact_name}
Marie Curie
{fact_name}
1867-11-07
{fact_name}
1934-07-04
{fact_name}
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
{fact_name}
Nobel Prize in Physics
{fact_name}
Willard Gibbs Award
{fact_name}
honorary doctor of the Jagiellonian University of Krakow

About the Wikidata tool

Wikidata’s Get facts returns item facts from a required name, item ID, or link; hint and language are optional.

Wikidata’s List items by criteria returns items of a named kind; location, award, sort, and result limit are optional.

Built from wikidata.org and query.wikidata.org. Last checked Sep 29, 2026.

Actions

Get facts

1 credit

What you provide

Field	Type	Required	Description
Hint`hint`	Text	Optional	Word in the description to distinguish similar items, for example company.Example: Chemist
Name`name`	Text	Required	Name, Wikidata item ID, or Wikidata item link, for example Microsoft.Example: Marie Curie
Language`language`	Text	Optional	Language code for names and facts, for example en or fr.Example: fr

What you get

Field	Type	Description
Name`name`	Text	Example: Marie Curie
Facts`facts`	List
Value`facts[].value`	Text	Example: Human
Fact Name`facts[].fact_name`	Text	Example: instance of
Item ID`item_id`	Text	Example: Q7186
Image URL`image_url`	Text	Example: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Marie_Curie_%281900%29_%28c…
Wikidata URL`wikidata_url`	Text	Example: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7186
Short Description`short_description`	Text	Example: Polish-born French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
English Wikipedia URL`english_wikipedia_url`	Text	Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie

Example result

For Hint: Chemist, Name: Marie Curie

JSON

{
  "name": "Marie Curie",
  "facts": [
    {
      "value": "human",
      "fact_name": "instance of"
    },
    {
      "value": "female",
      "fact_name": "sex or gender"
    },
    {
      "value": "Irène Joliot-Curie",
      "fact_name": "child"
    }
  ],
  "item_id": "Q7186",
  "image_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Marie_Curie_%281900%29_%28cropped%29.jpg",
  "wikidata_url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7186",
  "short_description": "Polish-born French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)",
  "english_wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie"
}

List items by criteria

1 credit

List Wikidata items of a named kind, optionally in a country or directly assigned to a region or city, or with an award. Sort by Wikipedia language editions, date, or name; partial dates are left blank.

Uses Wikidata and query.wikidata.org.

What you provide

Field	Type	Required	Description
Kind`kind`	Text	Required	Kind of item, for example university or person.Example: Person
Sort`sort`	Text	Optional	Result order; most_notable ranks by number of Wikipedia language editions, for example newest.Example: Oldest
Award`award`	Text	Optional	Optional award received, for example Nobel Prize in Physics.Example: Nobel Prize in Physics
Located in`located_in`	Text	Optional	Optional country, region, or city, for example Canada.Example: Canada
Max Results`max_results`	Number	Optional	Maximum number of items, for example 50 (up to 500).Example: 5

What you get

Field	Type	Description
Items`items`	List
Name`items[].name`	Text	Example: Albert Einstein
Country`items[].country`	Text	Example: Germany
Item ID`items[].item_id`	Text	Example: Q937
Start Date`items[].start_date`	Date	Example: 1879-03-14
Wikidata Link`items[].wikidata_link`	Text	Example: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q937
Short Description`items[].short_description`	Text	Example: German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
English Wikipedia Link`items[].english_wikipedia_link`	Text	Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein

Example result

For Kind: Person, Award: Nobel Prize in Physics, Max Results: 5

JSON

{
  "items": [
    {
      "name": "Albert Einstein",
      "country": "Germany",
      "item_id": "Q937",
      "start_date": "1879-03-14",
      "wikidata_link": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q937",
      "short_description": "German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)",
      "english_wikipedia_link": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein"
    },
    {
      "name": "Marie Curie",
      "country": "France",
      "item_id": "Q7186",
      "start_date": "1867-11-07",
      "wikidata_link": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7186",
      "short_description": "Polish-born French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)",
      "english_wikipedia_link": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie"
    },
    {
      "name": "Niels Bohr",
      "country": "Kingdom of Denmark",
      "item_id": "Q7085",
      "start_date": "1885-10-07",
      "wikidata_link": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7085",
      "short_description": "Danish physicist (1885–1962)",
      "english_wikipedia_link": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels_Bohr"
    }
  ]
}

For developers

Call it from your code with one request. Change the values in input to run it on new data. To get an API key, open Developers at the bottom of Studio, turn on Developer mode and go to API keys.

cURL

curl 'https://api.fous.com/v1/query' \
  --fail-with-body --silent --show-error --max-time 180 \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data-raw '{
  "api": "@wikidata",
  "visibility": "public",
  "operation": "get_facts",
  "version": 1,
  "input": {
    "hint": "chemist",
    "name": "Marie Curie"
  },
  "response": {
    "format": "json"
  }
}'

What you can do with it

Research facts about a company or person.
Find universities located in a country or city.
List people who received a specified award.
Sort items by date, name, or Wikipedia language editions.

Questions about Wikidata

Can I run it with my own inputs?

Yes. Change the inputs in Studio and press Run, or send new inputs from your code, or ask a connected AI assistant.

Can I call this Wikidata tool as an API?

Yes. Send a POST request to /v1/query with your Fous API key and the inputs, and get JSON back.

How much does it cost?

Each completed run costs 1 credit. Failed runs without a completed receipt are free; completed work can remain charged if delivery is interrupted. With pay as you go, a credit costs 1¢. Monthly plans cost less per credit.

Do I need a Wikidata account?

No. You only need a Fous account.

How current is the data?

Fous gets the data from wikidata.org when you run it. Some results are reused for up to 24 hours, and results that use your account or key are never reused. It was last verified on Sep 29, 2026.