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. For example, a person linked via a family bond to a PEP is considered a "relative or close associate" (RCA). Similarly, entities linked to sanctioned entities (especially subsidiaries) are tagges as "sanction-linked".

Data overview 

Entities:
Total120,129
Searchable120,129
Targets120,129
Entity types:
Legal entities109,249
Securities9,903
Vessels702
Airplanes275
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:opensanctions.org
Coverage:added · frequency: daily · On the hour, every 6 hours
Last processed:
2026-07-21 18:56:03 · v. 20260721185603-khh
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