license: cc-by-sa-4.0
language:
- en
size_categories:
- 1M<n<10M
task_categories:
- other
tags:
- knowledge-graph
- telecommunications
- wikidata
- standards
- 3GPP
- IETF
- ITU-T
- IEEE-802
- Bluetooth
- DOCSIS
pretty_name: Telecom Knowledge Base
Telecom Knowledge Base
Knowledge graph for the telecommunications industry — wikidata entities + SDO standards catalogs, in flat tabular form (one row per subject/statement/qualifier triple).
At a glance
- 4,679,018 rows, 301,949 distinct subjects, 16 columns
- 162 MB parquet (zstd)
- File ordered to put leading telcos (Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom, Verizon, Orange, BT…), then equipment vendors (Nokia, Ericsson, Huawei, Cisco, Qualcomm…), then headline 3GPP specs (TS 38.211, 23.501, 24.501…), then famous IETF RFCs (RFC 791 IP, RFC 793 TCP, RFC 9000 QUIC…), then telecom patents — at the very top of the file. The rest follows by
sourcethen numeric Q-ID.
Schema (16 columns)
| column | meaning |
|---|---|
statement_id |
wikidata statement ID; synthetic md5 for non-wikidata sources |
source |
wikidata / IETF / 3GPP / ITU-T / Bluetooth / CableLabs |
subject_id |
wikidata Q-ID or STD:<SDO>:<id> |
subject_label |
canonical English label |
subject_description |
English description |
subject_instance_of_ids |
pipe-separated P31 Q-IDs |
subject_instance_of_labels |
pipe-separated P31 labels |
property_id |
P-ID (P31, P50, P577, P1476, …) |
property_label |
property label |
value_id |
Q-ID or string value |
value_label |
value label |
value_type |
wikibase-entityid / string / time / monolingualtext / url |
qualifier_property_id |
qualifier P-ID (may be empty) |
qualifier_property_label |
qualifier label |
qualifier_value_id |
qualifier value |
qualifier_value_label |
qualifier value label |
A statement with N qualifiers becomes N rows sharing the same statement_id;
a statement with no qualifier is one row with empty qualifier fields.
Sources
| source | distinct subjects | rows |
|---|---|---|
wikidata |
287,535 | ~4.55M |
IETF (RFCs) |
9,757 | 104,284 |
3GPP (TS/TR) |
3,596 | 25,644 |
ITU-T (recommendations) |
738 | 2,952 |
Bluetooth (SIG specs) |
257 | 1,028 |
CableLabs (DOCSIS) |
66 | 264 |
Wikidata side
All wikidata properties of every kept subject are preserved — no property selection. The pipeline filters out entities (e.g. radio-personality humans, ships, off-topic content stubs) but never drops individual statements from a kept entity.
Build summary: 75 hand-curated telecom anchor classes → P279 BFS walk → 6,448 classes → P31 entity scan → property-based expansion (P452 / P101 / P106 / P921 / P136 / P1056) → anchor cascade (P108 / P127 / P137 / P749 / P176 / P361 / P488 / P169 / P3320 / P710) → concept-anchor patch (MIMO, OFDM, RSRP, IEEE 802.11n/ac/ax, Shannon-Hartley, AWGN, Friis, …) → weak-area patch (pioneers, ITU-T codecs, country regulators, SDN/NFV, mobile OS) → cleanup filters → 287,535 wikidata subjects.
Standards side
| SDO | Source | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| IETF | rfc-editor.org/rfc-index.xml |
full metadata: title, authors, year/month, status, abstract, obsoletes/-by, keywords |
| 3GPP | 3gpp.org/ftp/Specs/archive/ + 3gpp.org/dynareport |
91 % titles + last_modified + per-version date |
| ITU-T | itu.int/itu-t/recommendations per series |
std_id + series |
| Bluetooth SIG | bluetooth.com/specifications/specs/ |
title + url |
| CableLabs / DOCSIS | cablelabs.com/specifications |
title + url |
Standards rows use a 13-property wikidata-aligned subset (P31, P1476 title, P577 date, P361 part-of, P953 URL, P50 author, P155/P156 follows/-by, P393 edition, P348 version, P407 language, P5008 status, P1683 abstract) — a deliberate schema alignment to make standards joinable against the wikidata rows. Native per-SDO catalog parquets with all original fields are preserved upstream.
Not ingested (JS-rendered SDO catalogs): ETSI, GSMA, IEEE Get Program.
Subject-ID convention
Q…— wikidata entitySTD:IETF:RFC0791,STD:3GPP:TS_38.211,STD:ITU-T:G.711,STD:Bluetooth:…,STD:CableLabs:…— standards
Synthetic instance-of classes for SDO docs without wikidata Q-ID counterparts:
SYN:3GPP-TS, SYN:3GPP-TR, SYN:BT-SPEC, SYN:DOCSIS.
Loading
import pyarrow.parquet as pq, pyarrow.compute as pc
# stream
pf = pq.ParquetFile("telecom_kb_v15.parquet")
for batch in pf.iter_batches(batch_size=50_000):
for row in batch.to_pylist():
pass
# filter examples
t = pq.read_table("telecom_kb_v15.parquet")
verizon = t.filter(pc.equal(t["subject_id"], "Q467752"))
ietf = t.filter(pc.equal(t["source"], "IETF"))
Reconstruct a per-entity view by grouping on subject_id (+ statement_id).
Caveats
- Wikidata side reflects a 2026-Q1 dump; later additions are absent.
- Standards side is metadata only (titles / dates / versions / URLs / authors / obsoletes-chains), not full spec text.
- Wikidata coverage of individual standards documents is sparse: 0 3GPP TS
docs by exact label, ~95 RFCs by exact
RFC NNNlabel (plus ~1,700 by content-title via Q212971 RFC class), ~572 ITU-T recommendations. The standards-side rows are largely net-new vs wikidata. - Some cascade noise remains (non-telecom patents owned by Samsung / Qualcomm etc.) — documented in audits but kept per scope.