Show HN: Academic Ancestry – See Who taught the people who taught you (Launch)

Category: other

Tags: academic-genealogy, mcp, orcid, knowledge-graph, ai-assistant

Score: 4.0/10 (Innovation: 4, Technical: 4, Documentation: 2, Utility: 4)

Academic Ancestry is a web service that maps academic mentorship lineage—showing who taught whom and how two researchers are connected—and exposes this data as an MCP connector for AI assistants, with ORCID/Google/GitHub sign-in. The concept of a queryable academic genealogy accessed via an assistant connector is a modestly interesting combination, but the documentation is extremely sparse and the project appears early-stage.

Target audience: researchers, academics, data engineers, AI assistant users

Repository: https://academicancestry.org/

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