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title: "Use OpenSanctions data in Senzing"
summary: "The OpenSanctions database provides datasets for enriching your knowledge graph: link our data to your in-house records using the Senzing® entity resolution engine, and the resulting connections will alert you to sources of risk — sanctioned companies, politically exposed persons, or other listed entities you might be exposed to."
url: "https://www.opensanctions.org/docs/bulk/senzing/"
date_updated: "2026-08-04"
---

Our data is meant to be easy to work with: grab a full bulk data extract, build a prototype data pipeline — and, if it produces results, become a [commercial subscriber](/licensing/). Thanks to [Senzing's](https://senzing.com/) [Generic Entity Specification](https://senzing.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/231925448-Generic-Entity-Specification-Data-Mapping), Senzing's own data format, we can produce ready-to-load exports that make our [rich data model](/reference/) available to the entity resolution engine.

## Senzing entity resolution

Senzing data exports are available for all of our [source datasets](/datasets/sources/). For ease of use, however, we recommend you explore one of the following [data collections](/docs/glossary/#collection):

| Dataset name | Description | Senzing data |
| ------------ | ----------- | ------------ |
| [OpenSanctions Default](https://www.opensanctions.org/datasets/default/) | Full sanctions, PEP, crime and associated risk graph | [JSON](https://data.opensanctions.org/datasets/latest/default/senzing.json) | 
| [Sanctions](https://www.opensanctions.org/datasets/sanctions/) | Subset: Government-published sanctions lists | [JSON](https://data.opensanctions.org/datasets/latest/sanctions/senzing.json) |
| [GLEIF](https://www.opensanctions.org/datasets/gleif/) | Companies that have a legal entity identifier (LEI) | [JSON](https://data.opensanctions.org/datasets/latest/gleif/senzing.json) | [link](https://www.opensanctions.org/datasets/gleif/) |
| [ICIJ OffshoreLeaks](https://www.opensanctions.org/datasets/icij_offshoreleaks/) | Offshore company ownership data published by ICIJ | [JSON](https://data.opensanctions.org/datasets/latest/icij_offshoreleaks/senzing.json) | 

## How it works

Watch Senzing founder, Jeff Jonas, load OpenSanctions data into Senzing — in one breath:

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