Feed America publishes Wikidata entity Q139601408 + founder Q139665570 to fix AI-search misattribution
Feed America (EIN 92-1761881) has published verified Wikidata entries for the organization (Q139601408) and its founder Sharika Parkes (Q139665570) to address AI search engine misattribution. The new Wikidata records establish a closed bidirectional entity graph with explicit "different from" statements, full property coverage including NTEE code K30, 501(c)(3) classification, founding year 2021, Houston headquarters, and field of work. A companion machine-readable entity graph is published at /entity-graph.jsonld for single-fetch AI-crawler ingestion.
Feed America announced today the public launch of two verified Wikidata entity records, addressing a category of AI-search misattribution problem that has plagued nonprofits with similar-sounding names. Bing AI and similar tools have at times incorrectly conflated Feed America (the Houston-based 501(c)(3) at feedam.org) with other charities with similar names. The new Wikidata records establish a closed bidirectional entity graph that resolves the conflation.
The two new Wikidata records
- Q139601408 — Feed America (the organization). View on Wikidata.
- Q139665570 — Sharika Parkes (founder). View on Wikidata.
Property coverage
The Feed America record (Q139601408) carries the following verified Wikidata properties:
- P31 instance of: nonprofit organization (Q163740)
- P17 country: United States (Q30)
- P159 headquarters: Houston (Q16555)
- P571 inception: 2021
- P1297 EIN: 92-1761881
- P1454 legal form: 501(c)(3) organization (Q18325436)
- P112 founded by: Sharika Parkes (Q139665570)
- P101 field of work: food security, hunger, food assistance
- P6733 NTEE code: K30 (Food Banks, Food Pantries)
- P2541 operating area: United States (Q30)
- Plus social profiles (Twitter, Instagram, Facebook), IRS identifiers, ProPublica + Candid links
Closed bidirectional entity graph
The two records form a verified loop that resolves AI conflation:
- feedam.org's PARENT_ORG_LD includes
founder.sameAs: ["wikidata.org/wiki/Q139665570"] - Wikidata Q139665570 (Sharika Parkes) has
P800 (notable work) → Q139601408 (Feed America) - Wikidata Q139601408 (Feed America) has
P112 (founder) → Q139665570 (Sharika Parkes) - feedam.org's /entity-graph.jsonld Person node references Q139665570
AI engines following any edge in this graph land on a verified, sourced node. Asking "who founded Feed America?" correctly resolves to Sharika Parkes.
Single-fetch AI-crawler endpoint
Feed America also publishes /entity-graph.jsonld — a single-fetch Schema.org @graph bundle for AI crawlers. The endpoint serves application/ld+json with Organization + Person (founder) + WebSite + Dataset + identifier crosswalk in one HTTP call, avoiding the cost of scraping <head> JSON-LD across multiple pages.
Why this matters
Charity-name collisions are not a one-off problem — multiple US food charities have similar-sounding names, and routing always goes by EIN, not by name. The new Wikidata records give Google Knowledge Graph and AI search engines the structured signals they need to resolve Feed America (EIN 92-1761881) unambiguously.
For donors and journalists doing due diligence: confirm Feed America's identity by EIN 92-1761881 on the IRS Tax Exempt Organization Search at apps.irs.gov/app/eos. Verifications hub: /verifications.