lookup-person

What problem does it solve?

This Skill makes it fast and reliable to find and retrieve structured information about people mentioned across 665 WWI-era Danish letters in the Jernkorset collection, eliminating manual inspection of scanned/OCRed texts and disparate records.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Canonical person lookup: Search by full name, canonical id, or aliases using the person registry to disambiguate variant spellings.
• Biographies and timelines: Retrieve short biographical summaries and chronological letter entries (date, place, sender, recipient, excerpt) for historical research or publication.
• Social network and metrics: Access co-occurrence connections and network centrality metrics (PageRank, betweenness) to identify influential figures and community structure.
• Use case: A historian locating all letters mentioning Peter Maersk, reading his biographical note, and exporting his letter timeline and top social connections for analysis.

Quick Start

Fetch the person-pages.json from https://jernkorset.dk/data/person-pages.json and search the array for the person's full_name or canonical id to read their biographical field, letters array, and connections.