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Wikidata Extraction

This dataset contains all RDF triples extracted from the latest Wikidata, converted from the N-Triples format to Parquet.

The data originates from Wikidata, a free and open knowledge base that acts as central storage for structured data used by Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. The source file is the "truthy" N-Triples dump (latest-truthy.nt.bz2), which contains only the current, non-deprecated statements.

The code to extract this data is available at github.com/piebro/wikidata-extraction.

Schema

Each row represents a single RDF triple with four columns:

Column Type Description
subject string The entity being described (typically a Wikidata Q-ID URL)
predicate string The property or relationship (typically a Wikidata P-ID URL)
object string The value, which can be another entity, literal, or external ID
language string Language tag for literals (e.g., "en", "de"), null otherwise

Example Values

subject:   http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q42
predicate: http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
object:    Douglas Adams
language:  en

This triple means: "Q42 (Douglas Adams) has the English label 'Douglas Adams'".

subject:   http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q42
predicate: http://www.wikidata.org/prop/direct/P31
object:    http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5
language:  null

This triple means: "Q42 (Douglas Adams) is an instance of (P31) Q5 (human)". The language is null because the object is a URI, not a language-tagged literal.

Data Organization

Triplets

The triplets/ folder contains the raw RDF triples partitioned into Parquet files (triplets/*.parquet).

Extractions

The extractions/ folder contains extracted lookup tables and themed datasets:

File Description
entity_labels.parquet Maps entities to their labels
predicate_labels.parquet Maps predicates to their labels and descriptions
music/spotify_artist.parquet Spotify artist data
music/spotify_album.parquet Spotify album data
music/spotify_track.parquet Spotify track data
video/youtube_channel.parquet YouTube channel data
video/youtube_video.parquet YouTube video data
video/letterboxd_film.parquet Letterboxd film data
social/bluesky.parquet Bluesky account data
social/subreddit.parquet Subreddit data
social/patreon.parquet Patreon creator data
book/goodread_book.parquet Goodreads book data
book/gutenberg_book.parquet Project Gutenberg book data
other/github.parquet GitHub repository data
other/website.parquet Website data
other/non_profit_organization.parquet Non-profit organization data

Usage

Query the dataset using any Parquet-compatible tool (DuckDB, Pandas, Polars, etc.):

Find All Properties of an Entity

import duckdb

df = duckdb.sql("""
    SELECT *
    FROM 'triplets/*.parquet'
    WHERE subject = 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q42'
""").df()
print(df)

Look Up Entity Labels

import duckdb

entity_ids = ["Q42", "Q5", "Q64"]
entity_uris = [f"http://www.wikidata.org/entity/{e}" for e in entity_ids]

df = duckdb.sql(f"""
    SELECT entity, label
    FROM 'extractions/entity_labels.parquet'
    WHERE entity IN {tuple(entity_uris)}
""").df()
print(df)

License

Wikidata content is available under CC0 1.0 Universal.