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POST
Entity Lookup

Authorizations

X-API-KEY
string
header
required

Body

application/json

Resolve one Entity by an Ontology identifier scheme.

id is a single-key object { "<scheme>": "<value>" } (e.g. {"lei": "5493…"}). A top-level shorthand {"lei": "5493…"} is accepted and normalised into id. Integer values are coerced to strings (e.g. {"cik": 320193}).

id
Id · object
required

Exactly one Ontology identifier scheme and its value, e.g. {"lei": "95980020140005017502"} or {"cik": "320193"} (CIK is zero-padded). Supported schemes: cik, companies_house_uk_company_number, lei, rssd_id, siren.

Example:

Response

Entity stub matching Entity Search

id
string<uuid>
required

The ID of the entity

Example:

"e5bb591a-d308-4aa5-9672-96046d366cde"

name
string
required

The name of the entity

Example:

"OpenAI"

entity_type
enum<string>
required

The type of the entity

Available options:
Entity,
Animal,
Award,
Organization,
Company,
EducationalInstitution,
ResearchInstitution,
GovernmentalInstitution,
CulturalInstitution,
NonprofitOrganization,
IntergovernmentalOrganization,
HealthcareEstablishment,
Hospital,
HealthcareNetwork,
HealthcareMetric,
Person,
Event,
GPE,
Country,
CountrySubdivision,
DependentTerritory,
Municipality,
Continent,
Currency,
Industry,
DomainName,
FinancialMetric,
CuratedFinancialMetric,
Group,
CorporateEvent,
PrivateCompanyFundingRound,
FundingRound,
FundingRoundTranche,
LoanFacilityComponent,
Facility,
Location,
Organism,
Plant,
Fungus,
Bacterium,
Archaeon,
Virus,
Protist,
Chromosome,
Product,
Medicine,
ChemicalSubstance,
SmallMolecule,
Protein,
ProteinComplex,
Antibody,
ProteinIsoform,
Gene,
Transcript,
Oligonucleotide,
Drug,
SmallMoleculeDrug,
AntibodyDrug,
ProteinDrug,
OligonucleotideDrug,
ChemicalSubstanceDrug,
CellTherapy,
GeneTherapy,
MechanismOfAction,
Disease,
Anatomy,
Pathway,
ClinicalTrial,
ClinicalTrialArm,
ClinicalIntervention,
ClinicalOutcome,
Sanction,
WorkOfArt,
Document,
Patent,
ResearchPaper,
Law,
Language,
Exchange,
Future,
Commodity,
PositioningMetric,
MacroIndicatorPublication,
MacroIndicator,
ForeignExchangeRate,
CountryRegion,
AbstractFinancialMetric
Example:

"Company"

description
string | null

A short description of the entity

Example:

"An American multinational technology company."