# Knowledge & Facts

> Skill `knowledge` on Faro. 5 sub-skills.

Answers factual questions and looks up reference information on people, places, concepts, and events. Returns structured factual summaries rather than a web search result list. Covers both encyclopedic overviews and machine-readable structured data such as dates, coordinates, and identifiers.

**Category:** Knowledge & Reference  
**Tags:** knowledge, facts, encyclopedia, wikipedia, wikidata  
**Use when:** You need a grounded, citable fact about a topic, person, place, or thing rather than recalling it from training data.  
**Not for:** General web search or current events, real-time data like prices or weather, scraping arbitrary URLs, or full article bodies.  
**Returns:** information — Returns the fact plus a source link for verification and attribution. Structured facts come back as labelled values, not a downloadable file.

## How to run
Skills run through one gateway with your Faro token. Hand it an `intent` in plain language; Faro routes to the right sub-skill, runs it, and bills per call. Raw tools are internal plumbing and are not directly callable.

```
POST https://skill.askfaro.com/skills/knowledge/run
Authorization: Bearer faro_<your_key>
Content-Type: application/json

{"intent":{"prompt":"What is the correct article title for the Roman emperor Constantine?"}}
```

Or from the CLI:

```bash
pip install askfaro-cli && askfaro auth login
askfaro run knowledge "What is the correct article title for the Roman emperor Constantine?"
```

Full run reference: https://askfaro.com/llms/run.md — Agent recipe: https://askfaro.com/llms/skill.md

## Example requests

- What is the correct article title for the Roman emperor Constantine?
- What year was the Eiffel Tower built?
- Find articles about the Byzantine Empire
- Find the knowledge-base entry for Marie Curie

## Sub-skills

### Resolve a topic to its article

Finds the exact encyclopedia article title for a topic before summarizing it.

**Cost:** 0.1 credits / lookup

**Use when:** You have a rough name and need the canonical article title to fetch a clean summary.

**Details:** https://askfaro.com/llms/skills/knowledge/resolve_title.md

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### Summarize a topic

Returns a short sourced overview of a topic with a link to cite.

**Cost:** 0.1 credits / summary

**Use when:** You want a one-paragraph, citable overview of a known topic, person, or place.

**Details:** https://askfaro.com/llms/skills/knowledge/summarize.md

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### Search articles

Searches the encyclopedia for matching articles and pages through results.

**Cost:** 0.1 credits / search

**Use when:** You want to discover which articles exist on a topic, or browse related ones.

**Details:** https://askfaro.com/llms/skills/knowledge/search_articles.md

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### Resolve to a knowledge-base entry

Resolves a name to its structured knowledge-base identifier, disambiguating by description.

**Cost:** 0.1 credits / lookup

**Use when:** You need the identifier for a person, place, concept, or a fact field before pulling structured facts.

**Details:** https://askfaro.com/llms/skills/knowledge/resolve_entity.md

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### Get structured facts

Pulls machine-readable facts about an entry, such as dates, coordinates, and relationships.

**Cost:** 0.1 credits / lookup

**Use when:** You need specific structured values (population, date of birth, coordinates, identifiers) for a known entry.

**Details:** https://askfaro.com/llms/skills/knowledge/get_facts.md

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On the web: https://askfaro.com/search/knowledge