Stage Starter Relevance Explorer

Is your name an entity in the Google Knowledge Graph?

The Stage Starter Relevance Explorer queries the Google Knowledge Graph Search API and the Wikidata interface and shows whether, and how prominently, a name or brand is listed there as an entity of its own. The queries run directly in your browser with your own Google API key.

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Ready.

Enter your key, type a search term and run the check. The Wikidata source also works without a key.

Sweep

Several terms at once.

Name variants, your company, your projects, one term per line. The sweep gives you a compact view of where something exists and reveals mix-ups and entities you can link to. Wikidata and Wikipedia work without a key, the Google Knowledge Graph only with one.

How it works

Three data sources, one comparison.

The tool only reads existing data and shows whether a search term is listed as an entity, with which type and how strongly. If it appears nowhere, no entity of its own exists yet, and that is the starting point for building one.

Source 1

Google Knowledge Graph

A query to the Knowledge Graph Search API returns the entities Google holds for a term, with their schema.org type, a short description and a relevance score. Requires your own Google API key.

Source 2

Wikidata

Wikidata is an open knowledge base and one of the sources that feed the Knowledge Graph. The query shows existing items and related objects. Works without a key.

Source 3

Wikipedia

Whether an article exists for your name, in English and German. Wikipedia is one of the strongest sources feeding the Knowledge Graph. Works without a key.

Optional

Set up your API key.

For the Google source you need your own API key. It is free and does not require billing to be enabled. Wikidata works without a key.

Guide in five steps

  1. Select or create a project

    Open the Google Cloud Console and use the project picker at the top to select an existing project or create a new one. Billing does not need to be enabled.

  2. Enable the Knowledge Graph Search API in the project

    The key only returns results once the API is enabled in your project, otherwise you get error 403. Open the Knowledge Graph Search API and click “Enable”.

  3. Create an API key

    Go to “APIs & Services”, then Credentials, and choose “Create credentials” and “API key”. The key is shown straight away, so copy it.

  4. Restrict the key (recommended)

    Open the key with “Edit”. Under “API restrictions”, select the “Knowledge Graph Search API”. This list stays empty until the API from step 2 is enabled. Then, under “Application restrictions”, choose the option Websites (older versions of the console call it “HTTP referrers”). This refers to the domain of this tool, not your own website: enter both patterns, https://www.relevance-explorer.com/* and https://relevance-explorer.com/*, because the address without www redirects to the one with www.

  5. Enter the key

    Enter the key in the explorer above and save it. It is stored only locally in your browser and sent directly to Google with each query.

Tool chain by Stage Starter

Four tools in the order in which the questions come up.

Free, no account, no email address. You can also start somewhere in the middle.