Wikidata
Wikidata is the structured data project of the Wikipedia community, providing fact-based information edited by humans and machines.
Wikidata serves as the source of much of the OpenSanctions data related to politically exposed persons (PEPs). We also link up entities that are sanctioned whenever a relevant Wikidata item is available.
The Wikidata importer will also traverse family and personal relationships that are documented in the database and import relatives and close associates whereever these are stated.
Limitations
There is no attempt to link companies and organizations from sanctions lists to Wikidata, as the way that an encyclopedia describes such legal entities is not granular enough for due diligence use cases.
We also remove any person born before 1900, or who has died before 2000 from the dataset in order to avoid outdated profiles that could lead to false positives.
Data overview
| Entity count: | 135,107 searchable entities · 152,164 total | ||||
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| Publisher: | Wikidata Wikidata is a free and open knowledge base that can be read and edited by both humans and machines. It acts as central storage for the structured data of its Wikimedia sister projects including Wikipedia, Wikivoyage, Wiktionary, Wikisource, and others. | ||||
| Information: | www.wikidata.org | ||||
| Collections: | in Due Diligence List · Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) | ||||
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Wikidata is an external database that is used to enrich the data in OpenSanctions with additional details and connections.
This means that we have only included entities where there is a connection (e.g. to a sanctions target or a politician) and we are not reproducing the database in full.
Data from Wikidata is included in the collections listed above. However, since the enrichment data only makes sense in conjunction with the entities it relates to, we are not offering it for bulk download separately.
