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I'm looking for some callable way to get information about famous people and celebrities. Given a string, I'd like to determine if it's the name of a famous person, and if so, if they're alive and perhaps what category they fall into (e.g. Actor, Musician, Athlete).
Does anyone know of any publicly available APIs to do such a thing? The best I can come up with is Wikipedia, but it's pretty problematic because much of the info must be parsed, and isn't in a reliable and predictable format.
I'd also like to be able to offer suggestions for possible names when the initial search turns up nothing (since the strings will be from people and may contain misspellings).
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The Celebrity API is used to get detailed information about the celebrities found in the Entertainment API. Get filmographies, birthdays, images and more! Each subscription is tied to a solution and that solution contains the celebrities from the programs to which that solution has access.
Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects are free, collaborative repositories of knowledge, written and maintained by volunteers from around the world. The Wikimedia API gives you open access to add this free knowledge to your projects and apps.
Google Lens in Pixel smartphones is now able to recognize photos and depictions of well-known people like actresses, celebrities, and politicians.
If you want to highlight some aspects of your public life, like links to your social network accounts, website, or even email, you can go to Google Search and search for yourself or simply tell Google to "add me to Search".
Try DBpedia, the "preparsed" (RDF) version of Wikipedia. It can be queried using SPARQL. It includes much of the info in the English-language Wikipedia.
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