parents: Get term parents

API: ac.uk:embl-ebi-ontology-lookup-service-ols-api
Endpoint: /ontologies/{ontologyId}/terms/{termId}/parents
Response format: application/json
Auth: none
Method: GET
Last Status: 200
Latency: 464ms

Description

Returns direct parents (superclasses) of the specified term

Parameters (5)

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

termId (string, path, required)

Term IRI (URL-encoded, typically double-encoded)

Examples (1)

Get parents of independent continuant probe-gate 
curl 'https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ols4/api/ontologies/go/terms/http%253A%252F%252Fpurl.obolibrary.org%252Fobo%252FBFO_0000004/parents'
import requests

resp = requests.get("https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ols4/api/ontologies/go/terms/http%253A%252F%252Fpurl.obolibrary.org%252Fobo%252FBFO_0000004/parents")
data = resp.json()
import zingu_apis

api = zingu_apis.api("embl-ebi-ontology-lookup-service-ols")
result = api.fetch("ontologies/{ontologyId}/terms/{termId}/parents")

for item in result:
    print(item)
const resp = await fetch("https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ols4/api/ontologies/go/terms/http%253A%252F%252Fpurl.obolibrary.org%252Fobo%252FBFO_0000004/parents");
const data = await resp.json();

Probe History

Latency

Status Codes

TimeStatusLatencySize
2026-04-16 03:59:11.220569 200 464ms
2026-04-15 03:47:19.279502 200 258ms
2026-04-14 02:22:28.622582 200 272ms
2026-04-12 16:06:48.927579 200 204ms
2026-04-10 00:22:28.244239 200 158ms
2026-04-09 03:47:09.239162 200 203ms
2026-04-08 00:21:16.070243 200 228ms
2026-04-07 00:09:00.073333 200 217ms
2026-04-05 19:31:44.129206 200 225ms