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I think the concept is cool, but I tried clicking on stuff I'm familiar with, and I don't get the circles thing.

For example, the French communist party (PCF) has Jacques Chirac in its first circle. He has briefly been in this party, but he mostly remembered as right-wing.

Also the Fiorentina football club, should have its hall of fame striker Gabriel Batistuta in its first circle -he has a statue- while he appears in the outer circle.

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It uses Wikidata statements count, it is a metric of general notability.

It is not possible to have for 300k+ orgs the entities circles ordered by importance for the specific organization.

The feature is you can double click on Jacques Chirac and observe its connections to orgs like "the republicans", " rally for republic" and so on. The fun is in exploring graphs. You can also click investigate for a brief bio synthesis,

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