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: | 2026-11-13 00:12:07 · v. 20261113001207-mbd · change statistics... | ||||||
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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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| Ali Aslan | Person | Syria | |
| Rashid Bashir Virk | Person | Pakistan | |
| Bassam Abu Abdullah | Person | ||
| Brett Shumate | Person | United States | |
| Syed Nazim Hussain Shah | Person | Pakistan | |
| Mohammad Hadi Saleh | Person | ||
| Amajd Yaseen | Person | Pakistan | |
| Inbar Yehezkeli Blilious | Person | Israel | |
| Michal Hirsch Negri | Person | Israel | |
| Deborah Sharifian Bachar | Person | Israel | |
| Elyasaf Peretz | Person | Israel | |
| Israel Zari | Person | Israel | |
| Chanamel Dorfman | Person | Israel | |
| Jaber Al-Ali Al-Sabah | Person | Kuwait | |
| Bekjan Älimqulov | Person | Kazakhstan |
OpenSanctions is free for non-commercial users. Businesses must acquire a data license to use the dataset.
The data is licensed under the terms of Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution NonCommercial
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