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Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

This dataset includes the profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata into OpenSanctions. It does so by monitoring the Wikidata items describing a broad range of political positions (e.g.: member of the German Bundestag, or German Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs) and tracking the individuals who hold this post at different times.

The set of posts and positions that are tracked are curated by the OpenSanctions team prioritises:

  • National legislatures
  • National cabinets and ministerial positions
  • Some senior administrative positions
  • Diplomatic and military leadership
  • Supreme court judges
  • Central bank governors

Going forward, we will also include sub-national positions, include state legislatures in federally organized countries, as well as state-level senior executives.

Politically exposed persons are included after they retire from public office for a period determined by a number of rules to handle missing data and different levels of influence of positions.

Data overview

Entities:
Total553,416
Searchable248,484
Targets194,698
Entity types:
People194,698
Positions53,786
Countries:
214 countries · Show overview...
Publisher:Wikidata non-official source

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.

Collections:in OpenSanctions Default · Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs)
Information:www.opensanctions.org
Source data:query.wikidata.org · JSON
Coverage:added · update frequency: daily
Last processed:2024-12-11 12:48:03
Last change:
Warnings:1 Warning

Bulk download

Downloads contain the full set of entities contained in this dataset. You can fetch a simplified tabular form, or detailed, structured data in JSON format. Updated files will be provided once a day at the same location.

File nameExport typeSize
entities.ftm.jsonFollowTheMoney entities192.07 MB

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Using the API

You can query the data in this dataset via the application programming interface (API) endpoints below. Please read the introduction for documentation and terms of service.

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

Recent additions

The following targeted entities have been added to this data source most recently:

AddedNameTypeCountries
Alessia AmbrosiPersonItaly
Raul ToomasPersonEstonia
Liu WenjiePersonChina
Alex DightonPersonAustralia
Maung Maung AyePersonMyanmar (Burma)
Haitham El-noushPersonNorway
Gideon BoakoPersonGhana
Saroj Kumar YadavPersonNepal
Joyce SsebugwawoPersonUganda
Thasneem MarjanPersonIndia
Frederik FinisiePersonSuriname
Angel CholakovPersonFrance
Radka Balabanova-RulevaPersonFrance
Kimmo JarvaPersonFinland
dhurgham Al-MalikiPersonIraq