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Search for entity

https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbsearchentities&search=Lionel%20Messi&language=en&limit=50

"Lionel Messi"
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q615

{
    "searchinfo": {
        "search": "Lionel Messi"
    },
    "search": [
        {
            "repository": "",
            "id": "Q615",
            "concepturi": "http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q615",
            "title": "Q615",
            "pageid": 899,
            "url": "//www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q615",
            "label": "Lionel Messi",
            "description": "Argentine association football player",
            "match": {
                "type": "label",
                "language": "en",
                "text": "Lionel Messi"
            }
        }
    ]
}

Get an entity

https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbgetentities&sites=enwiki&titles=Lionel%20Messi&languages=en

DBpedia

http://dbpedia.org/page/Lionel_Messi

$ curl -s 'http://dbpedia.org/data/Lionel_Messi.ntriples' | grep -E "height|birth"
<http://dbpedia.org/resource/Lionel_Messi>	<http://dbpedia.org/ontology/birthDate>	"1987-6-24"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#date> .
<http://dbpedia.org/resource/Lionel_Messi>	<http://dbpedia.org/ontology/birthPlace>	<http://dbpedia.org/resource/Rosario,_Santa_Fe> .
<http://dbpedia.org/resource/Lionel_Messi>	<http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject>	<http://dbpedia.org/resource/Category:1987_births> .
<http://dbpedia.org/resource/Lionel_Messi>	<http://dbpedia.org/ontology/birthDate>	"1987-06-24"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#date> .
<http://dbpedia.org/resource/Lionel_Messi>	<http://dbpedia.org/ontology/height>	"1.7"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#double> .
<http://dbpedia.org/resource/Lionel_Messi>	<http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Person/height>	"170.0"^^<http://dbpedia.org/datatype/centimetre> .