Place

The place entity type encompasses cities, landmarks, countries, administrative areas, and other locations known to the Knowledge Graph.

Note that fields are not guaranteed to exist in every entity record.

For convenience, a complete ontology source in JSON format is also available here.

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Place Fields

• isPartOf
• location
• placeType

Place Field Details

Note that certain longer field examples may be truncated for readability.

isPartOf

• Type: LinkedEntity
• Example:

{
    "isPartOf": [
        {
            "summary": "Sovereign state in North America",
            "image": "https://kg.diffbot.com/image/api/get?fetch=yes&url=g%3Cj7P0St0DnBJf.x0KwLZrUn.%5B%3CR0Aa4Hh%3B%5Bv738ZqOr7U%3FfvEQ%3El%601Nw%7BM0Bf7hu7z%3FRe9s4XwGXedrKUAN%28%3D%5ECHnM%60%29.%7BOV",
            "types": [
                "Place",
                "AdministrativeArea",
                "Country"
            ],
            "name": "United States of America",
            "diffbotUri": "http://diffbot.com/entity/E01d4EK33MmCosgI2KXa4-A",
            "targetDiffbotUri": "http://diffbot.com/entity/E01d4EK33MmCosgI2KXa4-A",
            "targetDiffbotId": "E01d4EK33MmCosgI2KXa4-A",
            "type": "AdministrativeArea"
        }
    ]
}

location

• Type: Location
• Example:

{
    "location": {
        "country": {
            "summary": "Sovereign state in North America",
            "image": "https://kg.diffbot.com/image/api/get?fetch=yes&url=g%3Cj7P0St0DnBJf.x0KwLZrUn.%5B%3CR0Aa4Hh%3B%5Bv738ZqOr7U%3FfvEQ%3El%601Nw%7BM0Bf7hu7z%3FRe9s4XwGXedrKUAN%28%3D%5ECHnM%60%29.%7BOV",
            "types": [
                "Place",
                "AdministrativeArea",
                "Country"
            ],
            "name": "United States of America",
            "diffbotUri": "http://diffbot.com/entity/E01d4EK33MmCosgI2KXa4-A",
            "targetDiffbotUri": "http://diffbot.com/entity/E01d4EK33MmCosgI2KXa4-A",
            "targetDiffbotId": "E01d4EK33MmCosgI2KXa4-A",
            "type": "AdministrativeArea"
        },
        "isCurrent": false,
        "address": "United States of America",
        "latitude": 39.82817459106445,
        "precision": 3134.752685546875,
        "longitude": -98.57949829101562
    }
}

placeType

Deprecated Deprecated: Used to denote Place category for a location; ex. Park, City, etc. `types` is now the preferred field for getting this information.

• Type: String
• Example:

{
    "placeType": "COUNTRY"
}