Entity Metadata

This repository contains code and data about people and organizations. Potential uses include training and evaluation data sets to:

• Classify names as a person, business, or church
• Capitalize names with the proper case such as McGregory or de la Cruz
• Improve the probablepeople parser library
• Generate names
• Classify race or ethnicity of person from name

Data sets

Using PetScan

PetScan is a simple way to get a list of articles in a category from Wikipedia. For more advanced use, SPARQL might be better.

This is an example of how to export a list of articles in a category from PetScan. The CSV includes the Wikidata IDs, which can be fed to the script wikidata_org.py here to look up their metadata.

1. Go to PetScan
2. Set categories to Churches in the United States
3. Click the Wikidata tab
4. Click the Add items, where available option
5. Click the Output tab
6. Click the CSV option
7. Click the Do It button

Large files

The original and processed data sets can be very large, so most data sets are not committed to this repository. Please use either

1. Download the original and use the programs here to process them, or
2. Download the processed files from the SourceForge repository.

License

Written by Andrew Ziem. Copyright (c) 2017-2020 Compassion International.

The code is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3, and the data sets belong to the original data owners. Please consult the original sources for data licenses.

Other resources

• IMDb: full names of people who worked on movies in TSV
• Indian names: given names of each gender in CSV
• Open Library data dumps: names of authors in JSON format
• Museum of Modern Art: names of 26K artists and 81K artworks
• Polish first and last names: separate given female names, given male names, and surnames in separate text files
• Social Security Administration: baby names by year of birth and sex
• Tinder female profiles with given names
• Voter registration: Python scripts to parse United States voter files, separate for each state
• Federal Election Commission: donations to elections
• Social Security Death Master File: people with a Social Security Number who died

Roster of professional licenses

• Colorado: Department of Regulatory Agencies
• Connecticut
• Florida: Department of Business and Professional Regular
• Maine: Professional and Financial Regulation
• Mississippi: Medical License
• Texas: Engineers
• Virginia: Accountants
• Licensing Sources in State Agency Databases

Lists of names of businesses from government sources

• California: Businesses
• Colorado: Businesses

Contact information

While this repository contains names of entities and some other metadata, this repository does not contain any contact information: mailing address, email address, telephone number, etc.

Search keywords

• entity
• human
• person
• name
• first name
• given name
• surname
• family name
• church