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Find Connections Between Names With Wikidata: PeopleLinx Affiliations Lookup

PeopleLinx Affiliations Lookup (PAL) Enter a list of names separated by commas. (I have entered up to 125 and that works, but it takes a minute to sort and group the names.) PAL will search Wikidata to find the education, employers, and organization memberships for each name and group names…

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Crony Corral: Match People/Companies/Organizations and Topics in Wikipedia

Crony Corral searches Wikipedia to find people/companies/organizations with matching Wikidata properties and further searches for Wikipedia topics they have in common. Properties searched include: P159: headquarters location – Location of the main office of an organization, company, or institution. P108: employer – Used to link a person to the organization…

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Organize Your Biographic Searches Into Time Spans with Biography Buckets

Do you ever find yourself doing research on a person where you have a name and a lot of biographical information, but no real direction for searching? Biography Buckets is for you. Biography Buckets takes biographical events or keywords associated with a person and uses them to build date-based searches…

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Build Google Searches Around Related Topics With Wiki-Guided Google Search

Wiki-Guided Google Search Takes Your Wikipedia Topic Search And Builds A Set of Google queries around related topics. Say you want to learn more about Georgia O’Keeffe but you don’t know enough to make a detailed query for a search engine. But Wikipedia knows a LOT about Georgia O’Keeffe, so…

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