---
id: "SRC-notable-people-cross-verified-dataset"
title: "Notable People - Cross-verified Dataset"
source_level: "L2_dataset"
publisher: "Sciences Po Paris"
landing_page: "https://data.sciencespo.fr/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.21410/7E4/RDAG3O"
---

# Notable People - Cross-verified Dataset

This cross-verified dataset contains 2.2 million individuals, it can be used for research purposes. This dataset is linked to the following paper that should be cited directly instead of the data itself:

## Metadata

- **Source Id:** SRC-notable-people-cross-verified-dataset
- **Source Level:** L2_dataset
- **Title:** Notable People - Cross-verified Dataset
- **Description:** This cross-verified dataset contains 2.2 million individuals, it can be used for research purposes. This dataset is linked to the following paper that should be cited directly instead of the data itself:
- **Publisher:** Sciences Po Paris
- **Wikidata Id:** Q662729
- **Landing Page:** https://data.sciencespo.fr/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.21410/7E4/RDAG3O
- **Prefill Status:** Not checked
- **Access Rights:** Public
- **License:** CC-BY-SA
- **Spatial:** world
- **Theme:** history
- **Keywords:** birth date, people, history, wikipedia
- **Wikidata Main Topics:** public figure (Q662729); notability (Q4993710)
- **Access Method:** File download
- **Access Account Required:** false
- **Auth Method:** None
- **Rate Limit Declared:** Unknown
- **Access Cost Type:** Free
- **Pricing Model:** free_open_access
- **Pricing Currency:** N/A
- **Pricing Amount:** N/A
- **Pricing Unit:** N/A
- **Legal Risk Level:** Unknown
- **Legal Risk Notes:** In this paper, we introduced a multi-language database of notable individuals with the use of 7 language editions of Wikipedia and Wikidata to assemble a list of 4,678,040 individuals. This significantly reduced the Anglo-Saxon bias, but not all. Two main drawbacks remain. First, we did not exploit the non-Western language editions to cross-verify information on individual characteristics. Second, we did not collect the number of words beyond these 7 language editions: they enter in the notability index, but this index cannot be considered as global, resulting in a Western-world bias in notability measures. This is however partly compensated by the use of the total number of hits for all Wikipedia editions and not only 7, in our aggregate notability measure. The accuracy of Wikipedia being not perfect7,8, our data is as good as the source data, but our approach adds new possibilities: to cross-check across different language editions and reduce errors when possible.
- **Scraping Position:** Unknown
- **Conforms To:** DCAT-3; SourceCommons-SCF-0.1
- **Join Key Confidence:** Unknown
- **Github Resource Type:** N/A
- **Github Metadata Status:** Not checked
- **Hf Repo Type:** N/A
- **Hf Metadata Status:** Not checked