| --- |
| license: cc-by-4.0 |
| pretty_name: "ProofAML Sanctions & PEP Watchlist Snapshot" |
| tags: |
| - sanctions |
| - pep |
| - politically-exposed-persons |
| - watchlist |
| - aml |
| - anti-money-laundering |
| - kyc |
| - compliance |
| - ofac |
| - osint |
| - sanctions-screening |
| - entity-resolution |
| task_categories: |
| - text-retrieval |
| - other |
| size_categories: |
| - 100K<n<1M |
| --- |
| |
| # ProofAML Sanctions & PEP Watchlist Snapshot |
|
|
| **Research snapshot — not current data; production sanctions screening requires a live, monitored feed.** |
|
|
| A resolved, deduplicated snapshot of global sanctions, PEP (politically exposed |
| persons), and watchlist entities, compiled by [ProofAML](https://proofaml.com) |
| from government and intergovernmental publishers — OFAC, UN, EU, UK OFSI, |
| national parliaments, company registries, and more. |
|
|
| - **69 datasets, 120,886 entity records** (version `2026-08-24`) |
| - Cross-source entity resolution and deduplication applied by ProofAML |
| - One gzipped JSONL file per source dataset, plus a `manifest.json` listing |
| every included dataset's authority, source URL, license, entity count, and |
| checksum |
|
|
| ## Scope and what's excluded |
|
|
| This snapshot only includes sources whose license was confirmed, at build |
| time, to permit public redistribution. Sources that couldn't clear that bar |
| are deliberately left out and listed transparently in `manifest.json`'s |
| `excluded` array — for example a share-alike-licensed source (ODbL/CC BY-SA) |
| and a source with no confirmed redistributable snapshot artifact yet. This is |
| a licensing safeguard, not an oversight: the compilation is fail-closed by |
| design. |
|
|
| ## License |
|
|
| This dataset's license is **layered** — read both parts before redistributing |
| anything: |
|
|
| 1. **The compilation/resolution layer** (selection, arrangement, |
| cross-source entity matching, and deduplication) is licensed by ProofAML |
| under **CC BY 4.0**: |
| <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode> |
|
|
| 2. **Every individual record** remains governed by its **own originating |
| publisher's license** — this is *not* relicensed by ProofAML. The mix |
| includes US public domain (17 U.S.C. §105), UK Open Government Licence |
| v3.0, EU Commission Decision 2011/833/EU, UN CC BY 3.0 IGO, France |
| Licence Ouverte / Etalab, CC0, Nordic NLOD, and others, varying by |
| source. See the `NOTICE` file included in this repo for the full |
| per-source breakdown and required attributions before redistributing any |
| individual record in isolation. |
|
|
| ## Disclaimer |
|
|
| > Research snapshot — not current data; production sanctions screening |
| > requires a live, monitored feed. |
|
|
| This snapshot is a point-in-time export. It is **not** suitable as the sole |
| basis for a production AML/KYC sanctions-screening control — use it for |
| research, prototyping, and evaluation only. |
|
|
| ## Citation |
|
|
| Please cite the archived, DOI-minted version on Zenodo: |
|
|
| ``` |
| ProofAML. (2026). ProofAML Sanctions & PEP Watchlist Snapshot |
| (Version 2026-08-24) [Data set]. Zenodo. |
| https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22115768 |
| ``` |
|
|
| **DOI:** [10.5281/zenodo.22115768](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22115768) |
|
|
| ## Files |
|
|
| - `data/<id>.snapshot.jsonl.gz` — one gzipped JSONL file per included |
| dataset, one resolved entity record per line. |
| - `manifest.json` — dataset list with entity counts, checksums, and the |
| license/authority/source-url for every included dataset, plus the |
| `excluded` list (with reasons). |
| - `LICENSE` — CC BY 4.0, scoped to the compilation/resolution layer. |
| - `NOTICE` — per-upstream license and attribution requirements. Read this |
| before redistributing any individual record. |
|
|
| ## More information |
|
|
| Full per-source license map and the live (continuously updated) corpus: |
| <https://proofaml.com/sources/> |
|
|
