Spatiotemporal A* · Wikidata graph
Pick two notable figures. We pull a subgraph of the most popular figures from Wikidata each one carrying where and when they lived. Then, run A* over their interpersonal links to connect the pair with spatiotemporal weights.
Type a person's name or its Wikidata ID (starting with "Q"). We match it to Wikidata (the most popular match wins, so spelling matters). The first search can take up to a minute while the subgraph is built. Deployed version may failed because of vercel serverless function execution time limit, you can run it locally to get the full results.
How it works
Each person is a point in space and time, such as birthplace latitude/longitude and birth/death years, pulled from Wikidata.
People link through real relationships: influenced-by, teacher/student, doctoral lineage, family, spouse, partner.
A heuristic search walks the graph from start to end, guided by spatial and temporal distance, and returns the chain it finds.