> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.gdeltcloud.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Search Entities > Discover linked people and organizations that connect to Stories and Events. Entity taxonomy filters operate on linked Story/Event evidence. ## OpenAPI ````yaml /api-reference/openapi-v2.json get /api/v2/entities openapi: 3.0.3 info: title: GDELT Cloud API v2 version: 2.0.0 description: >- Clean v2 REST API for generated GDELT Cloud structured Events, clustered Stories, linked Entities, summaries, admin1 discovery, significance ranking, and paginated article evidence. Event significance is a family-scoped weighted blend, renormalized so every event family spans a true 0-1: each event's raw total is divided by the maximum its own family can reach (Conflict 1.00, CAMEO+ POLITICAL 0.90, other CAMEO+ domains 0.65). All events: Goldstein severity 0.25, article evidence 0.05, confidence 0.05. Conflict only: fatalities 0.55 (log-scaled by body count) and civilian targeting 0.10. CAMEO+ only: magnitude 0.20, systemic importance 0.15, propagation potential 0.10, market sensitivity 0.10. When magnitude is unmeasured its term AND its 0.20 weight are both dropped. The four CAMEO+ metrics are rubric scores produced by published formulas - ordinal ranking signals, not measurements, probabilities, or predicted price moves. goldstein_scale is one canonical public metric, populated for Conflict Events and CAMEO+ POLITICAL Events where meaningful. Story linked_event_count is a Story-to-Event link aggregate, not a distinct Event total. servers: - url: https://gdeltcloud.com description: Production - url: http://localhost:3000 description: Local development security: - ApiKeyAuth: [] tags: - name: Events description: Coded CAMEO+ / conflict events — search, fetch, and summarize. - name: Stories description: Clustered narratives (stories) and their articles. - name: Entities description: >- People & organizations — resolve a name to an entity, then fetch its profile and tone. - name: Geography description: Admin-1 geography lookups. - name: Energy description: Global Energy Monitor assets + ownership registry. - name: Facilities description: >- Unified physical-asset directory — GEM energy assets + World Port Index ports + Epoch AI data centers on one keyed surface, resolved to spine owners. Plan-gated (Analyst plan and up). - name: Screening and Reference description: >- Restricted-party lists, screening, and ownership-chain exposure. Plan-gated (`can_use_screening` / `can_use_exposure`). - name: China description: >- China overseas development finance (AidData GCDF). Plan-gated (`can_use_china`). - name: Media Intelligence description: >- Entity tone (`can_use_tone`) and Share of Voice (`can_use_share_of_voice`) are plan-gated. Social signal remains an admin-only preview. - name: Filings description: >- SEC EDGAR filings, XBRL financials, and AI-extracted relations. Requires a plan with SEC filings access (`can_use_filings`) — the Corporate & Supply Chain plan and above. - name: Macro Finance description: >- FRED economic time series (catalog, point-in-time observations, releases). Plan-gated (`can_use_macro`). - name: Maritime description: >- AIS-derived vessel-flow signals across maritime chokepoints — chokepoint transits, last-known vessel positions, carriers, dwell, and AIS-dark gaps. Plan-gated (`can_use_maritime`). - name: Briefs description: Source-backed monitoring briefs. paths: /api/v2/entities: get: tags: - Entities summary: Search Entities description: >- Discover linked people and organizations that connect to Stories and Events. Entity taxonomy filters operate on linked Story/Event evidence. operationId: search-entities-v2 parameters: - name: search in: query description: >- Entity name or phrase to search for. Aliases `q`, `query`, `keyword`, and `name` are accepted (first non-empty wins); for high-recall cross-source discovery see `GET /api/v2/search`. Resolved filters are echoed in the response `applied_filters` block, with unrecognized params under `applied_filters.ignored`. schema: type: string - name: type in: query description: >- Optional entity type filter. `place` covers geographies (countries, cities, regions), typed from Wikidata P31 — before 2026-07-30 these were mis-filed under organization and person, so type=organization returned countries. Roles and offices are deliberately none of these three and are excluded rather than mislabelled. schema: type: string enum: - person - organization - place - $ref: '#/components/parameters/dateStart' - $ref: '#/components/parameters/dateEnd' - $ref: '#/components/parameters/eventFamily' - $ref: '#/components/parameters/category' - $ref: '#/components/parameters/subcategory' - $ref: '#/components/parameters/domain' - $ref: '#/components/parameters/hasFatalities' - $ref: '#/components/parameters/civilianTargeting' - $ref: '#/components/parameters/sort' - $ref: '#/components/parameters/limit' - $ref: '#/components/parameters/cursor' responses: '200': description: Entity cards content: application/json: schema: allOf: - $ref: '#/components/schemas/PaginatedResponse' - type: object properties: data: type: array items: $ref: '#/components/schemas/EntityCard' examples: entities: value: success: true data: - id: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations url: >- https://gdeltcloud.com/entity-geg/organization/United%20Nations name: United Nations type: organization wikipedia_url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations story_refs: [] event_refs: [] pagination: limit: 25 cursor: null next_cursor: eyJvZmZzZXQiOjI1fQ== security: - ApiKeyAuth: [] x-codeSamples: - lang: curl label: cURL source: |- curl "https://gdeltcloud.com/api/v2/entities" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $GDELT_CLOUD_API_KEY" components: parameters: dateStart: name: date_start in: query description: >- Inclusive start date in YYYY-MM-DD, matched against the event or story date. Alias `start_date` is accepted for compatibility. Omit dates for the default recent window; explicit windows may not exceed 30 days. schema: type: string format: date example: '2026-04-11' example: '2026-04-11' dateEnd: name: date_end in: query description: >- Inclusive end date in YYYY-MM-DD, matched against the event or story date. Alias `end_date` is accepted for compatibility. Omit dates for the default recent window; explicit windows may not exceed 30 days. schema: type: string format: date example: '2026-04-17' example: '2026-04-17' eventFamily: name: event_family in: query deprecated: true description: >- Deprecated legacy filter. Prefer `category`, which implies Conflict vs CAMEO+. Still accepted for backwards compatibility. schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/EventFamily' category: name: category in: query description: >- Stable linked Event product category. Use a Conflict event type such as `Battles`, `Protests`, or `Explosions/Remote violence`, or one CAMEO+ domain such as `POLITICAL`, `INFRASTRUCTURE`, or `CRIME`; values may be single or comma-separated. On Story endpoints this filters linked Event evidence. Use `story_category` only for legacy Story-cluster categories such as `conflict_security`. Full list: [Taxonomy & Codes](/api-reference/taxonomy). schema: type: string example: Battles example: Battles subcategory: name: subcategory in: query description: >- More specific linked Event subtype, CAMEO+ event description, or CAMEO+ code. Requires parent `category` and must belong to at least one selected category. For Conflict categories, use sub-event types such as `Armed clash`, `Peaceful protest`, or `Air/drone strike`. Validation errors include accepted_values, nearest_values when practical, and a corrected example. Full list: [Taxonomy & Codes](/api-reference/taxonomy). schema: type: string example: Armed clash example: Armed clash domain: name: domain in: query description: >- Deprecated legacy CAMEO+ domain enum. Prefer `category`/`categories` for new integrations; retained for backwards compatibility. Full list: [Taxonomy & Codes](/api-reference/taxonomy). schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Domain' deprecated: true hasFatalities: name: has_fatalities in: query description: >- Set `true` for fatality monitoring. v2 intentionally exposes only this boolean fatality filter. schema: type: boolean example: true example: true civilianTargeting: name: civilian_targeting in: query description: >- Filter Conflict-linked evidence by ACLED civilian_targeting. `true` keeps records where civilians are the primary target; `false` excludes those records. schema: type: boolean sort: name: sort in: query description: >- `significance` is the default analyst ranking. Use `recent` when freshness matters more than importance. schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Sort' example: significance example: significance limit: name: limit in: query description: Number of records to return. schema: type: integer minimum: 1 maximum: 100 default: 25 example: 25 example: 25 cursor: name: cursor in: query description: Pagination cursor from `pagination.next_cursor`. schema: type: string schemas: PaginatedResponse: type: object properties: success: type: boolean enum: - true pagination: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Pagination' EntityCard: type: object description: >- One canonical Entity, deduplicated by Wikipedia URL across raw_name variants on the public list surface. Low-quality matches (disambiguation pages, common nouns, extraction artifacts) are filtered server-side. GDELT-derived per-article metrics (mention_count, avg_salience) are not part of the public contract — story_count, article_count, and event_count are the canonical activity signals. Entity detail can include cached Entity Tone metadata when include_tone=true; missing tone is reported as not_available, not neutral. properties: id: type: string url: type: string format: uri nullable: true name: type: string description: >- Canonical display name — the most-mentioned raw_name variant pointing at this Wikipedia URL. type: type: string nullable: true enum: - person - organization wikipedia_url: type: string format: uri nullable: true latest_date: type: string format: date nullable: true description: >- Most recent date the Entity appeared in a Story or Event within the requested window. image_url: type: string format: uri nullable: true description: Best-effort Wikipedia thumbnail URL for UI rendering. avatar_url: type: string format: uri nullable: true description: Best-effort compact avatar URL, usually the same as image_url. wikipedia: type: object nullable: true description: >- Compact Wikipedia enrichment when available, including thumbnail_url, description, page_url, and summary on detail responses. additionalProperties: true metrics: type: object description: >- Aggregated activity counts over the requested window, summed across all raw_name variants that map to this Wikipedia URL. properties: article_count: type: integer description: >- Total articles in matched Stories and Events mentioning the entity. story_count: type: integer description: >- Distinct GDELT Cloud Stories (cluster_ids) the entity appeared in. event_count: type: integer description: Distinct coded Events (Conflict + CAMEO+) linked to the entity. story_refs: type: array items: type: object event_refs: type: array items: type: object entity_tone: type: object nullable: true description: >- Present on Entity detail when include_tone=true and the caller is allowed to access preview tone metadata. tone_status may be scored, reviewable, partial, or not_available. properties: tone_status: type: string enum: - scored - reviewable - partial - not_available coverage: type: object additionalProperties: true latest_series: type: array items: type: object by_language: type: array description: >- Per-language tone breakdown over ALL scored Stories in the window. Embedded on Entity detail (include_tone=true); on the tone endpoints it appears when the request passes group_by=language. Each item: language (ISO code), mean_tone, mean_risk, confidence, scored_story_count (scored Stories covered in that language), article_count (TOTAL articles in that language — real coverage volume, not the bounded evidence sample), and a daily series. Lets you compare how an entity is covered across languages (e.g. markedly more negative in one language than another). Mean tone is computed over every scored Story, not a sample. items: type: object properties: language: type: string mean_tone: type: number nullable: true mean_risk: type: number nullable: true confidence: type: number nullable: true scored_story_count: type: integer article_count: type: integer series: type: array items: type: object analytics_url: type: string nullable: true methodology: type: object additionalProperties: true cooccurrences: type: array description: >- Co-occurring entities — people/organizations that appear in the same Stories as this entity within the window, ranked by shared-Story count. Returned on Entity detail. Each item: name, type (person|organization), wikipedia_url, story_count (shared Stories), source ('news'), url (entity page). items: type: object properties: name: type: string type: type: string nullable: true enum: - person - organization wikipedia_url: type: string nullable: true story_count: type: integer source: type: string url: type: string nullable: true timeline: type: array description: >- Per-day activity for the entity over the window (Entity detail). Each item: date, article_count, mention_count. items: type: object source_mix: type: array description: >- Top news domains covering the entity over the window (Entity detail). Each item: domain, article_count, story_count. items: type: object map_pins: type: array description: >- Geo-located Events linked to the entity (Entity detail), for map rendering. Each item: event_uid, event_family, event_date, title, country, category, latitude, longitude. items: type: object sources: type: object nullable: true description: >- Per-source entitlement control-plane on Entity detail: for each data source (news, events, tone, gem, sec, sanctions, china, epoch_ai, facilities, gov, share_of_voice) whether the caller's plan is entitled, plus availability for entitled sources. Non-entitled sources report a uniform locked state and omit availability (no availability leak). The corresponding section objects (news, events, tone, sec, ...) appear at the top level only for entitled sources. additionalProperties: true EventFamily: type: string enum: - conflict - cameoplus Domain: type: string enum: - POLITICAL - ECONOMIC - CORPORATE - TECHNOLOGY - INFRASTRUCTURE - HEALTH - DEMOGRAPHIC - INFORMATION - ENVIRONMENT - CRIME Sort: type: string enum: - significance - recent default: significance Pagination: type: object properties: limit: type: integer cursor: type: string nullable: true next_cursor: type: string nullable: true securitySchemes: ApiKeyAuth: type: http scheme: bearer bearerFormat: gdelt_sk_... description: 'GDELT Cloud API key. Send as `Authorization: Bearer gdelt_sk_...`.' ````