Graph-based entity tagging

Automatically generated graph-based topic annotations

This data sources stores annotations of entities which are adjacent to other risk-linked entities

Derived risk topics, computed by walking the resolved entity graph. Each annotation is a patch carrying only a topics value; it is merged into the target entity, which takes its name and other properties from its own sources.

  • role.rca — a person on the other side of a family relationship from a role.pep entity.
  • sanction.linked — an entity one relationship away from a sanctioned entity, via ownership, directorship, membership, employment, association, family or succession; a security issued by a sanctioned entity; and the issuer of a sanctioned security. Also applied to every sanction.control entity.
  • sanction.control — an entity owned by a sanctioned or sanction.control entity, down the full ownership chain, regardless of the size of the stake.
  • export.control.linked — an entity owned by an export.control or export.control.linked entity, down the full ownership chain, regardless of the size of the stake.

Relationships carrying an end date are ignored, so a former director or ex-spouse does not carry derived risk topics.

Data overview 

Entities:
Total87,431
Searchable87,431
Targets87,431
Entity types:
Legal entities76,549
Securities9,909
Vessels700
Airplanes273
Publisher:OpenSanctions non-official source

OpenSanctions is the company behind the OpenSanctions database of persons and companies of political, criminal, or economic interest.

Collections:in OpenSanctions Default
Information:www.opensanctions.org
Coverage:added · frequency: daily · On the hour, every 6 hours
Last processed:
2026-08-20 00:44:50 · v. 20260820004450-gut
Last change:

Using the API 

You can query the data in this dataset via these API endpoints:

For entity matching, use the /match endpoint:
For full-text search, use the /search endpoint:
Use the Reconciliation API in OpenRefine:
Code on GitHub