The New York Times · Capability
NYT Metadata Enrichment
Workflow for enriching content with NYT semantic metadata and tags. Combines the Semantic API and TimesTags API to support knowledge graph construction, entity resolution, and metadata classification workflows. Used by data teams, NLP engineers, and editorial teams standardizing entity metadata.
What You Can Do
GET
Get concept by name
— Get full concept metadata including links, taxonomy, and article associations.
/v1/concepts/{concept-type}/{specific-concept}
GET
Search concepts
— Search concepts by substring across all concept types.
/v1/concepts/search
MCP Tools
get-concept-by-name
Look up a specific NYT concept (person, place, organization, or descriptor) by type and exact name to get full metadata including taxonomy, geocodes, and related articles.
read-only
idempotent
search-concepts
Search the NYT controlled vocabulary by substring to find people (nytd_per), places (nytd_geo), organizations (nytd_org), or descriptors (nytd_des).
read-only
idempotent
APIs Used
nyt-semantic