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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:
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.
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| 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 Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) · OpenSanctions Default | ||||||
| Information: | www.opensanctions.org | ||||||
| Source data: | query.wikidata.org · JSON | ||||||
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| Last checked: | · updated daily | ||||||
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 name | Export type | Size | |
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entities.ftm.json | FollowTheMoney entities | 153.1 MB | |
names.txt | Target names text file | 3.08 MB | |
senzing.json | Senzing entity format | 90.22 MB | |
statistics.json | Dataset statistics | 19.8 KB | |
targets.nested.json | Targets as nested JSON | 240.71 MB | |
targets.simple.csv | Targets as simplified CSV | 27.51 MB |
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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: |
The following targeted entities have been added to this data source most recently:
| Added | Name | Type | Countries |
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| Trent Staggs | Person | ||
| Brett A. Hales | Person | ||
| Kendalyn Harris | Person | ||
| Marcus Stevenson | Person | ||
| Georgi Tachov | Person | Bulgaria | |
| César Gil Bernárdez | Person | Spain | |
| Brad Frost | Person | ||
| Brian Horrocks | Person | ||
| Christian Bro | Person | Denmark | |
| Simon Walters | Person | United Kingdom | |
| Lajos Farkas | Person | Hungary | |
| Andrea Linhartová | Person | Czech Republic | |
| Pascoal Ronda | Person | Mozambique | |
| Amade Miquidade | Person | Mozambique | |
| Francisco Javier de Istúriz Simonet | Person | Spain |
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