Search Wikidata entities, run SPARQL queries, resolve external IDs, and fetch multilingual labels via @cyanheads/wikidata-mcp-server — 7 tools

{
  "server": "@cyanheads/wikidata-mcp-server",
  "version": "0.10.9",
  "transport": "stdio",
  "entry": "dist/index.js",
  "tools": 7,
  "tool_list": ["wikidata_search_entities({query, type?: item|property, language?: string, limit?: number, offset?: number})", "wikidata_get_entity({id: QID|PID, fields?: string[], languages?: string[]})", "wikidata_get_labels({ids: string[], languages?: string[]})", "wikidata_get_statements({id, properties?: PID[], language?: string, resolve_labels?: boolean})", "wikidata_get_sitelinks({id, sites?: string[], wikis_only?: boolean})", "wikidata_sparql_query({query: string, language?: string, timeout?: number})", "wikidata_resolve_external_id({property: PID, value: string, language?: string})"],
  "calls": [
    {
      "tool": "wikidata_search_entities",
      "args": {
        "query": "Istanbul",
        "type": "item",
        "language": "en",
        "limit": 3
      },
      "result_preview": "Q406 Istanbul (largest city in Turkey), Q534799 Istanbul Province, Q400680 disambiguation",
      "ms": 639,
      "ok": true
    },
    {
      "tool": "wikidata_get_entity",
      "args": {
        "id": "Q406",
        "fields": ["labels", "descriptions", "aliases"],
        "languages": ["en", "tr"]
      },
      "result_preview": "en: Istanbul, tr: İstanbul, desc: largest city in Turkey / Türkiye'nin ve Avrupa'nın en kalabalık şehri",
      "ms": 668,
      "ok": true
    },
    {
      "tool": "wikidata_get_labels",
      "args": {
        "ids": ["Q406", "Q254", "Q64"],
        "languages": ["en"]
      },
      "result_preview": "Q406: Istanbul, Q254: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Q64: Berlin",
      "ms": 319,
      "ok": true
    },
    {
      "tool": "wikidata_get_statements",
      "args": {
        "id": "Q406",
        "properties": ["P1082", "P17", "P625"],
        "language": "en",
        "resolve_labels": true
      },
      "result_preview": "P17: Turkey (Q43, since 1923-10-29), Ottoman Empire, Byzantine Empire... P625: 41.01, 28.96. P1082: 15655924 (2023)",
      "ms": 1025,
      "ok": true
    },
    {
      "tool": "wikidata_get_sitelinks",
      "args": {
        "id": "Q406",
        "sites": ["enwiki", "trwiki", "dewiki"]
      },
      "result_preview": "enwiki: Istanbul, trwiki: İstanbul, dewiki: Istanbul",
      "ms": 376,
      "ok": true
    },
    {
      "tool": "wikidata_sparql_query",
      "args": {
        "query": "SELECT ?city ?cityLabel ?pop WHERE { ?city wdt:P31 wd:Q515. ?city wdt:P17 wd:Q43. ?city wdt:P1082 ?pop. FILTER(?pop > 1000000) SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language 'en'. } } ORDER BY DESC(?pop) LIMIT 5"
      },
      "result_preview": "Ankara 5803482, Bursa 2901396, Antalya 2426356, Konya 2232374, Şanlıurfa 1985753",
      "ms": 7184,
      "ok": true
    },
    {
      "tool": "wikidata_resolve_external_id",
      "args": {
        "property": "P356",
        "value": "10.1038/NATURE12373",
        "language": "en"
      },
      "result": {
        "match": null
      },
      "ms": 904,
      "ok": true,
      "note": "no match — not all DOIs are in Wikidata"
    },
    {
      "tool": "wikidata_search_entities",
      "args": {
        "query": "population",
        "type": "property",
        "language": "en",
        "limit": 3
      },
      "result_preview": "P1082 population, P4179 tabular population, P1539 female population",
      "ms": 562,
      "ok": true
    },
    {
      "tool": "wikidata_sparql_query",
      "args": {
        "query": "SELECT ?mountain ?mountainLabel ?elevation WHERE { ?mountain wdt:P31 wd:Q8502. ?mountain wdt:P2044 ?elevation. SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language 'en'. } } ORDER BY DESC(?elevation) LIMIT 5"
      },
      "result_preview": "Mount Blackburn 16390, Crestone Needle 14203, Mount Belford 14203, Mount Bross 14178, Kit Carson Peak 14171",
      "ms": 22483,
      "ok": true,
      "note": "SPARQL can be slow (7-22s) — complex queries hit Wikidata rate limits"
    },
    {
      "tool": "wikidata_resolve_external_id",
      "args": {
        "property": "P496",
        "value": "0000-0002-9079-593X",
        "language": "en"
      },
      "result": {
        "match": {
          "id": "Q17714",
          "label": "Stephen Hawking",
          "description": "British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018)"
        }
      },
      "ms": 230,
      "ok": true
    },
    {
      "tool": "wikidata_search_entities",
      "args": {
        "query": "東京",
        "type": "item",
        "language": "ja",
        "limit": 3
      },
      "result_preview": "Q1490 東京都 (日本国の首都), Q7473516 東京, Q6526474 カテゴリ:東京",
      "ms": 415,
      "ok": true
    },
    {
      "tool": "wikidata_get_entity",
      "args": {
        "id": "Q5",
        "fields": ["labels", "descriptions"],
        "languages": ["en", "fr", "de"]
      },
      "result_preview": "en: human, fr: être humain, de: Mensch",
      "ms": 590,
      "ok": true
    }
  ],
  "success_rate": "12/12 (100%)",
  "p50_ms": 576,
  "key_gotchas": ["SPARQL queries can be SLOW (7-22s) — Wikidata Query Service has rate limits and complex graph traversals take time", "elevation data has MIXED UNITS — some mountains stored in feet, others in meters (Mount Blackburn shows 16390, which is feet not meters)", "resolve_external_id returns match:null when entity not in Wikidata (not all DOIs/ORCIDs are linked)", "get_statements with resolve_labels=true is powerful but slower (~1s) — returns full historical chain (Istanbul: Turkey since 1923, Ottoman Empire 1453-1923, Byzantine Empire...)", "search_entities supports non-Latin scripts (Japanese 東京 works with language:ja)", "type:'property' mode searches Wikidata properties (P-codes) not items (Q-codes) — useful for discovering P1082=population etc.", "sitelinks returns Wikipedia article URLs for specific wiki editions (enwiki, trwiki, dewiki etc.)", "fields parameter on get_entity controls response size — omit claims to keep it lightweight", "server emits verbose JSON logs to stderr (structured pino logging) — pipe stderr to /dev/null in production"]
}