Category-based imports from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.
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Category-based imports from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.
This dataset is based on querying Wikipedia category pages for entities of interest.
Using PETScan, this dataset is generated by querying specific categories on Wikidata and extracting the entities that are part of them and describe persons.
This is used to fetch profiles of politically exposed persons and other entities of interest.
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| Publisher: | Wikidata · Global 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 Datasets | ||||||
| Information: | meta.wikimedia.org | ||||||
| Source data: | petscan.wmcloud.org · CSV | ||||||
| Tags: | list.pep | ||||||
| Coverage: | added · frequency: daily | ||||||
| Last processed: | 2026-08-05 00:12:01 · v. 20260805001201-nkv | ||||||
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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: |
The following targeted entities have been added to this data source most recently:
| Added | Name | Type | Countries |
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| María Lucía Villalba | Person | Colombia | |
| Абрамова, Ольга Викторовна | Person | Russia | |
| María Eugenia Londoño Ocampo | Person | Colombia | |
| Ayman al-Shuqairi | Person | Syria | |
| Kamau M. Marshall | Person | United States | |
| Dominik Drdul | Person | Slovakia | |
| 王昌荣 | Person | China | |
| Alibek Qasymov | Person | Kazakhstan | |
| Fazna Shakir | Person | Maldives | |
| Muhammad Saeed al-Hasou | Person | Syria | |
| Ahmad al-Afdal | Person | Syria | |
| Muhammad Haj Othman | Person | Syria | |
| Abdullah al-Zayed | Person | Syria | |
| Брагин, Анатолий Иванович | Person | Russia | |
| Yahya Muhammad Imad Ibrahim | Person | Syria |
OpenSanctions is free for non-commercial users. Businesses must acquire a data license to use the dataset.