GET /ontologies/{ontologyId}/individuals

ac.uk:embl-ebi-ontology-lookup-service-ols-api

Summary: List individuals in an ontology
Operation ID: getOntologyIndividuals
Auth: unknown
Description

Returns a paginated list of all individuals in the specified ontology

Parameters (4)

lang (string, query, optional, default: en)

Language code

ontologyId (string, path, required)

Ontology ID (e.g., 'go', 'efo', 'mondo')

page (integer, query, optional, default: 0)

Page number (0-indexed)

size (integer, query, optional, default: 20)

Page size

Examples (3)

TitleTypeURLAction
List individuals in Gene Ontology curl https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ols4/api/ontologies/go/individuals
List individuals in Disease Ontology with pagination curl https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ols4/api/ontologies/doid/individuals?page=0&size=10
List individuals in Uberon ontology - second page curl https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ols4/api/ontologies/uberon/individuals?page=1&size=50

Probe History

Latency

Status Codes

TimeStatusLatencySize
2026-03-23 10:40:50.594289 200 184ms
2026-03-23 09:43:57.039139 200 165ms
2026-03-23 09:22:38.618500 200 209ms

Response Changes

WhenOldNew
2026-03-23 09:43:57.039139 dfc1a36a4862 be3d33888167
2026-03-23 10:40:50.594289 be3d33888167 06b8c164353c