---
title: "What a named place, facility or actor is"
method: GET
path: "/api/v1/reference"
---

# What a named place, facility or actor is

`GET /api/v1/reference`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://offnadir-delta.com`
- URL: `https://offnadir-delta.com/api/v1/reference`
- Auth: one of:
  - HTTP bearer
  - API key in header `X-API-Key`

Free (Starter plan and above). The public-encyclopedia (Wikipedia) profile of a name that appears in the reporting — the article summary, up to six infobox lines and one photo whose licence could be read — quoted from the source, never assessed. `basis` says what happened: `stored` or `fetched` (an article), `not_found` (no matching article; this is not a sign the name is unimportant), `unavailable` (the source could not be reached — a temporary failure, not an absence) or `plan_locked` (the profile is part of the full event detail and was not looked up; see `plan_lock`). Show `attribution` and the image licence wherever you display the result.

## Query parameters

- `name` string, required
- `entity_id` string, uuid

## Response `200`

The profile, or the reason there is none.

- object
  - `query` object
  - `basis` 'stored' | 'fetched' | 'not_found' | 'unavailable' | 'plan_locked'
  - `profile` object
  - `plan_lock` object
  - `attribution` string

## Other responses

- `401`: Error response with a stable machine-readable code.
- `403`: Error response with a stable machine-readable code.
- `429`: Error response with a stable machine-readable code.

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