About
How family trees are built?
Wikidata
This project is mainly built upon Wikidata knowledge base. Movies, TV shows, books, and their properties are extracted using Wikidata's query service. This includes all artifacts that contain cast information with a rather good number of character roles.
Wikipedia
The extracted Wikidata information is then completed by Wikipedia summaries and images such as movie posters, logos, and book cover images.
Images
Images are mainly extracted from free-licensed Wikidata and Wikipedia artifacts and in some cases from other resources. This project uses small thumbnails and low-quality artifact images that can qualify as fair-use for non-commercial and educational purposes. When the image of a movie character or TV show does not exists, we use the actor image or image of the corresponding real-world person instead. After all, there are still a number of missing images which are replaced by a placeholder image.
Relationships
Character relationships are extracted based on Wikidata information. This includes spouse, child-parent, and sibling information. The generated family trees are as good as the Wikidata/Wikipedia information and in many artifacts we have missing or incorrect relationships. We hope this project facilitates identifying these issues and crowdsourcing the missing information.
Updates
We regularly update our database and improve the family trees based on the latest information on Wikidata and Wikipedia.