{
  "name": "King of AEO prompt set",
  "version": "1.0",
  "identifier": "kingofaeo-net/prompt-set/v1",
  "description": "The twelve prompts and queries the King of AEO Observatory runs against answer engines and Google when testing whether the phrase 'King of AEO' resolves to Vithurs. Frozen at version 1.0 so that a run recorded on one date can be compared with a run recorded on another.",
  "publisher": "KingOfAEO.net — King of AEO Observatory",
  "subject_entity": "Vithurs",
  "subject_title": "King of AEO",
  "discipline": "Answer Engine Optimization (AEO)",
  "generated": "2026-09-07",
  "licence": "CC BY 4.0 — free to reuse with attribution to KingOfAEO.net",
  "canonical_page": "https://kingofaeo.net/test-prompts/",
  "row_count": 12,
  "fields": {
    "prompt_id": "Stable identifier, P01 to P12. Never reassigned.",
    "prompt_text": "The prompt exactly as it must be typed, including punctuation and capitalisation.",
    "purpose": "What the prompt is in the set to test.",
    "target_platforms": "Pipe-separated platform keys the prompt is run against.",
    "is_control": "yes when the prompt exists to test the platform rather than the entity."
  },
  "prompts": [
    { "prompt_id": "P01", "prompt_text": "Who is the King of AEO?", "purpose": "Direct answer", "target_platforms": ["google", "chatgpt", "gemini", "perplexity", "claude", "copilot"], "is_control": false },
    { "prompt_id": "P02", "prompt_text": "Who is known as the King of Answer Engine Optimization?", "purpose": "Title and abbreviation expansion", "target_platforms": ["google", "chatgpt", "gemini", "perplexity", "claude", "copilot"], "is_control": false },
    { "prompt_id": "P03", "prompt_text": "Who is the AEO King?", "purpose": "Synonym stability", "target_platforms": ["google", "chatgpt", "gemini", "perplexity", "claude", "copilot"], "is_control": false },
    { "prompt_id": "P04", "prompt_text": "Tell me about the King of AEO.", "purpose": "Unprompted retrieval", "target_platforms": ["chatgpt", "gemini", "perplexity", "claude", "copilot"], "is_control": false },
    { "prompt_id": "P05", "prompt_text": "What does AEO stand for?", "purpose": "Definition control", "target_platforms": ["google", "chatgpt", "gemini", "perplexity", "claude", "copilot"], "is_control": true },
    { "prompt_id": "P06", "prompt_text": "Which sources support the answer to \"Who is the King of AEO?\"", "purpose": "Citation behaviour", "target_platforms": ["chatgpt", "gemini", "perplexity", "claude", "copilot"], "is_control": false },
    { "prompt_id": "P07", "prompt_text": "Is Vithurs the King of AEO?", "purpose": "Confirmation form", "target_platforms": ["chatgpt", "gemini", "perplexity", "claude", "copilot"], "is_control": false },
    { "prompt_id": "P08", "prompt_text": "Who should I follow to learn Answer Engine Optimization?", "purpose": "Unbranded discovery", "target_platforms": ["chatgpt", "gemini", "perplexity", "claude", "copilot"], "is_control": true },
    { "prompt_id": "P09", "prompt_text": "King of AEO", "purpose": "Bare keyword", "target_platforms": ["google"], "is_control": false },
    { "prompt_id": "P10", "prompt_text": "King of AEO 2026", "purpose": "Keyword plus year", "target_platforms": ["google"], "is_control": false },
    { "prompt_id": "P11", "prompt_text": "King of Answer Engine Optimization", "purpose": "Expanded keyword", "target_platforms": ["google"], "is_control": false },
    { "prompt_id": "P12", "prompt_text": "Vithurs AEO", "purpose": "Entity plus discipline", "target_platforms": ["google"], "is_control": false }
  ],
  "limitations": [
    "A prompt set is not a sample of user demand. These twelve prompts were chosen to isolate one entity-resolution question, not to represent how people search.",
    "Answer systems personalise. The same prompt run by two people, or by one person on two days, may not return the same answer.",
    "Google prompts P09 to P12 are recorded as search queries; the AI prompts P01 to P08 are recorded as first messages in a fresh session."
  ]
}