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Dbpedia

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pipeworx.ioMemory & Knowledge1Updated 4d ago

About Dbpedia

Dbpedia is an MCP server for AI agents to search and query structured data derived from Wikipedia. It offers keyless Lookup and SPARQL access, with standalone or Pipeworx gateway deployment.

Key features

  1. 01DBpedia Lookup entity search
  2. 02SPARQL endpoint queries
  3. 03Fetch resource triples
  4. 04Retrieve topic abstracts

Use cases

  1. 01Find and resolve knowledge entities
  2. 02Query structured links between entities
  3. 03Retrieve multilingual topic abstracts

MCP support

It exposes Lookup search, SPARQL, resource-triple, and topic-abstract tools to MCP clients. It can run locally over stdio or connect through the Pipeworx gateway.

Configuration

Remote servers need no local install. Pick your client, then copy the config or install in one click.

Endpointhttps://gateway.pipeworx.io/dbpedia/mcp
Copy install command
Claude CodeTerminal
Cursor.cursor/mcp.json
VS Code.vscode/mcp.json
Claude Desktopclaude_desktop_config.json
Windsurf~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json

Run commands in a terminal; paste JSON into the client’s MCP config and restart. Servers that need sign-in will prompt on first connect.

Tools

45
ParameterTypeRequiredDescription
qstringNoAlias for question.
askstringNoAlias for question.
textstringNoAlias for question.
inputstringNoAlias for question.
packsarrayNoOPTIONAL. Restrict routing to these pack slugs (e.g. ["sec-form-d","sec-13f"]) — the router then picks only from tools in those packs. Omit for the default full-catalog routing. Slugs come from list_packs / search_packs / https://pipeworx.io/directory; unlisted or unknown slugs are ignored and named in _meta.pack_scope.ignored, and if none of them resolves the question is routed across the whole catalog with _meta.pack_scope.full_catalog:true (never an empty answer).
querystringNoAlias for question.
promptstringNoAlias for question.
messagestringNoAlias for question.
questionstringYesYour question or request in natural language. Accepts query, q, prompt, text, input, ask, message as aliases.

Details

From the project README

@pipeworx/dbpedia

DBpedia MCP — structured knowledge extracted from Wikipedia. SPARQL endpoint + Lookup search. Keyless.

Part of Pipeworx — an MCP gateway connecting AI agents to 1878+ live data sources. This is an independent, unofficial integration — not affiliated with, endorsed by, or published by the upstream provider.

Tools

  • lookup(query, max_results?, type?) — DBpedia Lookup search (entity-resolution friendly)
  • sparql(query, format?) — DBpedia SPARQL endpoint
  • resource(uri) — fetch all triples about a DBpedia resource
  • abstract(label, lang?) — fetch English/foreign abstract for a topic

Data source

  • Lookup: https://lookup.dbpedia.org/api/
  • SPARQL: https://dbpedia.org/sparql
  • Linked Data: https://dbpedia.org/resource/<Label>

Quick Start

Add to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, etc.):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "dbpedia": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/dbpedia/mcp"
    }
  }
}
What this endpoint actually serves

tools/list at https://gateway.pipeworx.io/dbpedia/mcp returns the tools in the table above plus the shared Pipeworx meta-tools — ask_pipeworx, discover_tools, search_within, remember/recall and the rest of the gateway-wide set. So the tool count you see is larger than this table: a single-pack endpoint currently lists roughly 30 shared tools alongside the pack's own. The connection's initialize response states its exact scope, and is the authoritative answer for a given day.

This is deliberate, not multiplexing by accident. The meta-tools are what let a scoped connection answer a question this pack does not cover — via ask_pipeworx, which routes across the whole catalog — without you adding a second MCP server. There is currently no way to mount a pack endpoint without them; if the extra schemas cost you more context than the routing is worth, connect to the full gateway once rather than to several pack endpoints.

Or connect to the full Pipeworx gateway to get every pack's tools listed directly, instead of just this one's:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pipeworx": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Both URLs reach the same gateway and the same 1878+ data sources. The only difference is which pack's tools are listed directly; ask_pipeworx reaches all of them from either one.

No MCP client? Call it over HTTP

curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/dbpedia_lookup \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"query":"Albert Einstein"}'

No account needed for the first calls. Inspect any tool: GET https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/dbpedia_lookup. Find one: POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/search_packs with {"query":"..."}.

Standalone (no gateway account)

This package also runs as a local stdio MCP server — no Pipeworx account, no gateway round-trip:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "dbpedia": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@pipeworx/mcp-dbpedia"]
    }
  }
}

Or run it directly to confirm it starts:

npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-dbpedia

It speaks MCP over stdin/stdout and answers initialize/tools/list/tools/call for only this pack's tools — none of the shared meta-tools the gateway connection above adds. Same source, same tools, no ask_pipeworx routing.

Using with ask_pipeworx

Instead of calling tools directly, you can ask questions in plain English — this works on the pack endpoint above as well as on the full gateway:

ask_pipeworx({ question: "your question about Dbpedia data" })

The gateway picks the right tool and fills the arguments automatically.

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License

MIT

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