CBDB API

关于

The CBDB API skill provides a powerful gateway to the China Biographical Database, a massive relational database containing records for approximately 500,000 individuals in Chinese history. It enables researchers and students to programmatically access detailed information regarding historical figures' names, kinship ties, teacher-student relationships, and government roles. By supporting queries in Chinese characters, Pinyin, or unique CBDB IDs, this skill facilitates deep prosopographical research and social network analysis, making it an indispensable tool for digital humanities projects focused on pre-modern China.

主要功能

• Standardized JSON and XML output for structured data parsing
• Access to historical official positions and career trajectories
• Querying by Chinese characters, Pinyin, or unique person IDs
• Contextual metadata including dynastic periods and geographic associations
• Retrieval of complex social networks and kinship data
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使用场景

• Extracting career and appointment data for specific officials across dynasties
• Researching social and professional networks of historical Chinese elites
• Resolving ambiguous historical names using birth/death dates and location data