Warnings and errors from all datasets

Below is an overview of all parsing and processing issues that appeared while importing the data.

Dataset	Warnings	Errors
EU Council Official Journal Sanctioned Entities	9
French National Assembly		1
Indonesian List of Suspected Terrorists and Terrorist Organizations		1
Kazakh Terrorist and Terror Financing lists		1
Lithuania PEPs from the register of private interests		1
OpenCorporates		1
South Africa Municipal Leadership		1
South Africa Wanted Persons		1
Spain Members of Parliament	37
Swiss SECO Sanctions/Embargoes	1
Taiwan Strategic High-Tech Commodities Entity List	1
US BIS Denied Persons List		1
Wikidata	4
Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories	1

Know-Your-Business (KYB) Datasets

Note: The datasets in this section are datasets used for enrichment, meaning that only a small subset of entities are actually pulled in to our main dataset. Handling of issues on these datasets happens opportunistically on a best-effort basis.

Dataset	Warnings	Errors
Abuja MoU Port State Control Inspections	1
Companies House (UK) Persons with Significant Control	2520	1
Cyprus company registry		1
Czech Republic Business Register	2
Deutsches Handelsregister (OffeneRegister.de)	7530
Estonia e-Business Register (E-äriregister)	1
GLEIF Concatenated Data File	450
Kazakhstan State Register of legal entities	1700	3784
Russian Unified State Register of Legal Entities (EGRUL)	4944	932
Slovakia Public Sector Partners Register (Register partnerov verejného sektora - RPVS)	1
Tokyo MoU Port State Control Inspections	1	1
Ukraine Consolidated State Registry (Edinyy Derzhavnyj Reestr)	159
US CorpWatch EX-21 Filings	6	10
US Foreign Agents Registration Act list	3

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