How To Find Wikipedia Entities With YACSS

In the YACSS sidebar under Content Tools, click Wikipedia Entities to open the Wikipedia Entities Generation page.

The first field at the top left is a dropdown labelled Select Language. This controls which language version of Wikipedia the tool will query. Wikipedia exists in hundreds of languages and each language version has its own set of articles, links, and entities. Select the language that matches the market you are targeting. For example if you are creating content for a Spanish-speaking audience select Spanish, and the tool will pull entities from the Spanish Wikipedia rather than the English one. English is selected by default.

In the Input Keyword field, type the Wikipedia topic you want to analyse. This should be entered exactly as it appears as a Wikipedia article title for best results. For example if you want to analyse the topic of plumbing, type "Plumbing" rather than "plumbing services near me." The tool needs a real Wikipedia article to exist for the keyword in order to extract entities from it. If the keyword does not have a Wikipedia page the tool will return an error message saying "Invalid Wikipedia Keyword."

Before or after processing, you can use the Filter By dropdown to control which results are shown based on their relevance score. There are three options:

All — Shows every entity returned regardless of its relevance percentage score.

Most Relevant — Only shows entities with a relevance score above 60%, meaning they have a strong semantic association with your keyword. This is the default selection and is recommended for most use cases as it filters out loosely related or low-signal entities.

Broad Relevance — Shows entities with a relevance score above 30%, casting a wider net and including more distantly related terms. Useful if you want a broader view of the topic landscape.

Click the Process button to start the analysis. The button shows a spinning icon while the tool runs in the background. A progress bar appears showing how far through the analysis the tool is. The process typically takes between 30 seconds and a couple of minutes depending on how many related Wikipedia pages are found for your keyword.

If a job is already running when you load the page the Process button will be disabled and a Stop Analyzing button will appear instead. Clicking Stop Analyzing cancels the current job immediately and re-enables the Process button so you can start a new one.

Once processing completes the results appear in two panels side by side. The left panel displays a list of entities that are semantically related to your keyword based on Wikipedia's own content and structure. Each entity has a relevance score indicating how closely it is associated with your keyword. Results are sorted so the most relevant entities appear at the top.

In the default List view each entity is shown as a colour-coded bar. Green means above 70% relevance, amber/orange indicates moderate relevance between 30–70%, and red means below 30%. The percentage score is shown on the right side of each bar.

The right panel displays a broader set of keywords and terms that Wikipedia associates with your keyword. These tend to be wider thematic terms rather than direct sub-topics, and are useful for understanding the broader topic landscape around your keyword, identifying related content areas, and building out a more comprehensive content strategy.

Both results panels have their own format dropdown at the top right, letting you choose how the results are displayed and copied. The options are the same for both panels:

List — Displays results as individual colour-coded bars with the relevance percentage shown on the right. This is the default view and the clearest for reading and reviewing results.

Comma Separated — Displays all results as a single comma-separated string. Useful for pasting directly into tools or documents that accept keyword lists.

Unnumbered Bullet Point List — Displays results as an HTML unordered list with bullet points. Useful for pasting into a content brief or document.

Numbered Bullet Point List — Same as above but with numbers. Useful when you want to reference specific entities by number.

List with Even/Uneven Color Background — Displays results as a striped table with alternating row colours, making it easier to read long lists.

Changing the format dropdown immediately re-renders the results panel in the new format without reloading the page.

Each results panel has a Copy button and a Download button above the results.

Copy — Copies all the visible results from that panel to your clipboard in the currently selected format. The button briefly shows "Copied" to confirm the action. Invisible elements such as percentage labels are stripped out when copying so you get clean plain text.

Download — Downloads the results from that panel as a plain text file to your computer in the currently selected format. The Related Entities panel downloads as a file called wiki-combined-entities.txt and the Related Keywords panel also downloads as wiki-combined-entities.txt. The content matches exactly what is shown in the panel at the time of clicking.