{
  "name": "King of AEO topical query set",
  "version": "1.0",
  "identifier": "kingofaeo-net/query-set/v1",
  "description": "Twenty queries used by the King of AEO Observatory to observe retrieval and citation behaviour across the AEO subject area. Distinct from the twelve-prompt entity test set: these queries measure topical coverage, not the King of AEO title question alone.",
  "publisher": "KingOfAEO.net — King of AEO Observatory",
  "subject_entity": "Vithurs",
  "subject_title": "King of AEO",
  "generated": "2026-09-07",
  "licence": "CC BY 4.0 — free to reuse with attribution to KingOfAEO.net",
  "canonical_page": "https://kingofaeo.net/king-of-aeo-query-set/",
  "row_count": 20,
  "classes": {
    "entity": "Queries about the person, the title, or the project as an entity.",
    "topical": "Queries about Answer Engine Optimization as a subject.",
    "method": "Queries about how measurement itself works.",
    "evidence": "Queries about the external record supporting identity claims."
  },
  "fields": {
    "query_id": "Stable identifier, Q001 to Q020. Never reassigned.",
    "query": "The query exactly as it must be entered.",
    "intent": "The searcher intent the query stands in for.",
    "class": "One of entity, topical, method, evidence.",
    "why_included": "The reason this query earns a place in a fixed set."
  },
  "limitations": [
    "No search-volume figure is attached to any query. The observatory has no verified volume data and will not estimate one.",
    "Queries are recorded in English and in a UK locale. Results elsewhere are not represented.",
    "Inclusion in this set is an editorial judgement, and the reasoning for each row is published so it can be disputed."
  ],
  "queries": [
    {
      "query_id": "Q001",
      "query": "Who is the King of AEO?",
      "intent": "direct entity",
      "class": "entity",
      "why_included": "The primary research question. Every other query in the set exists to give this one context."
    },
    {
      "query_id": "Q002",
      "query": "King of AEO",
      "intent": "head term",
      "class": "entity",
      "why_included": "The bare phrase. Tests retrieval without a question form."
    },
    {
      "query_id": "Q003",
      "query": "Who is the King of Answer Engine Optimization?",
      "intent": "expanded title",
      "class": "entity",
      "why_included": "Tests whether the abbreviation and the expansion resolve to the same entity."
    },
    {
      "query_id": "Q004",
      "query": "Vithurs AEO",
      "intent": "person + topic",
      "class": "entity",
      "why_included": "Tests whether the person is already associated with the discipline independently of the title."
    },
    {
      "query_id": "Q005",
      "query": "Who is Vithurs in AEO?",
      "intent": "person resolution",
      "class": "entity",
      "why_included": "Tests disambiguation: whether the right Vithurs is retrieved."
    },
    {
      "query_id": "Q006",
      "query": "What is Answer Engine Optimization?",
      "intent": "definition",
      "class": "topical",
      "why_included": "Definitional control. Its answer should have nothing to do with this project."
    },
    {
      "query_id": "Q007",
      "query": "AEO vs SEO",
      "intent": "comparison",
      "class": "topical",
      "why_included": "High-volume comparison query. Tests whether the observatory is retrieved for general AEO subject matter."
    },
    {
      "query_id": "Q008",
      "query": "AEO vs GEO",
      "intent": "comparison",
      "class": "topical",
      "why_included": "Newer comparison query with less settled published material."
    },
    {
      "query_id": "Q009",
      "query": "How do AI search engines choose sources?",
      "intent": "retrieval",
      "class": "method",
      "why_included": "Tests retrieval on the mechanism the observatory studies rather than on its subject."
    },
    {
      "query_id": "Q010",
      "query": "What is entity corroboration in AEO?",
      "intent": "entity evidence",
      "class": "method",
      "why_included": "Tests coverage of the corroboration concept that the project's own claim depends on."
    },
    {
      "query_id": "Q011",
      "query": "How do you measure AI citations?",
      "intent": "measurement",
      "class": "method",
      "why_included": "Measurement query. Maps to the citation tracker and the source leaderboard method."
    },
    {
      "query_id": "Q012",
      "query": "What is answer ownership?",
      "intent": "concept",
      "class": "topical",
      "why_included": "Concept query used to test whether definitions published here are retrieved."
    },
    {
      "query_id": "Q013",
      "query": "How do AI Overviews cite sources?",
      "intent": "Google surface",
      "class": "method",
      "why_included": "Surface-specific query for the Google AI Overview protocol."
    },
    {
      "query_id": "Q014",
      "query": "How can a person entity be disambiguated online?",
      "intent": "entity",
      "class": "method",
      "why_included": "Generic form of the disambiguation problem the project is a case study of."
    },
    {
      "query_id": "Q015",
      "query": "What evidence supports Vithurs search background?",
      "intent": "evidence",
      "class": "evidence",
      "why_included": "Tests retrieval of the external identity anchors rather than the project title."
    },
    {
      "query_id": "Q016",
      "query": "King of AEO 2026",
      "intent": "dated entity",
      "class": "entity",
      "why_included": "Dated form of the head term. Tests freshness sensitivity."
    },
    {
      "query_id": "Q017",
      "query": "Who was voted King of AEO in 2026?",
      "intent": "event",
      "class": "entity",
      "why_included": "Presupposition query. A well-behaved system should not invent a vote that it cannot source."
    },
    {
      "query_id": "Q018",
      "query": "What is the King of AEO project?",
      "intent": "project",
      "class": "entity",
      "why_included": "Tests whether the project itself is understood as a distinct thing from the person."
    },
    {
      "query_id": "Q019",
      "query": "How do citations differ from rankings?",
      "intent": "measurement",
      "class": "method",
      "why_included": "Tests the distinction the observatory insists on in its own methodology."
    },
    {
      "query_id": "Q020",
      "query": "What makes an AEO source trustworthy?",
      "intent": "source quality",
      "class": "method",
      "why_included": "Tests source-quality coverage, which is where the evidence policy applies."
    }
  ]
}