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Wikidata entity

An MCP tool from the Public Knowledge server, hosted on mcp.hjlabs.in.

Read a Wikidata entity by Q-id: label, description, aliases, Wikipedia links and the values of its most useful properties (instance of, dates of birth/death, country, coordinates, official website, population, ISO codes and others). Values that point to other entities come back as Q-ids with labels resolved where cheap.

Name on the gateway: knowledge__wikidata_entity · read-only.

Parameters

NameTypeDescription
id requiredstringEntity id, e.g. "Q42".
langstringLanguage for labels. Default "en".

How to call it

Through the Smart Gateway, any client can run it by name with call_tool, or let the gateway find it with search_tools:

call_tool arguments
{
  "name": "knowledge__wikidata_entity",
  "arguments": {
    "id": "…"
  }
}

Or connect the Public Knowledge server directly, which lists 47 tools including this one:

Run in your terminal
claude mcp add --transport http hj-knowledge https://mcp.hjlabs.in/mcp/knowledge \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"

Try asking

Use the wikidata entity tool with id set to ….

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