opensanctions — OpenSanctions persons and companies of interest (2026)

Description

The network of the persons, companies, organizations and other entities of interest for sanctions screening and investigations of OpenSanctions, an open database that consolidates the sanctions lists of governments and international organizations, the lists of politically exposed persons (PEPs, politicians and their family members and close associates), lists of wanted criminals, debarred companies, and related corporate registry and ownership data, from more than 300 sources, with de-duplicated entities. The network is built from the default collection, the broadest one ("any entity that should receive enhanced public scrutiny"), in the version of 31 October 2026, in the FollowTheMoney (FtM) data model.

Each node is an FtM "thing": a person, a company, an organization, a legal entity of unknown kind, a public body, a political or public position, an address, a security, a vessel, an airplane, a crypto wallet, an asset, or an article, all of them included. Each directed edge is a relationship between two of them: either an FtM relationship entity, from its source to its target (Occupancy: holder → position; Ownership: owner → asset; Directorship: director → organization; Employment: employee → employer; Membership: member → organization; Family: person → relative; Associate: person → associate; Representation: agent → client; Succession: predecessor → successor; UnknownLink: subject → object; Documentation: entity → document; and the other relationship schemata, if any), or a reference from one thing to another (addressEntity: thing → its address; holder: holder → crypto wallet; issuer: issuer → security; organization: organization → position; parent: parent → organization; operator and owner of assets). The network is a multigraph. The relationships whose ends are not both in the collection (e.g. relatives that are not themselves of interest) are not included, and neither are the sanction records (Sanction, which link an entity to a sanctioning authority given as text; whether an entity is sanctioned is given by its topics), nor the identification documents, passports and other records that do not join two things.

The entities are compiled from many sources of different precision: the same person or company can still appear as several nodes when the sources could not be matched, and many PEP records lack exact dates of birth or full names. The data change daily; the version used is pinned (20261031125407-kkl).

The network has the following properties:

(Node) entity_id: the id of the entity in OpenSanctions (its page is https://www.opensanctions.org/entities/<entity_id>/).
(Node) schema: its FtM schema (e.g. Person, Company, Position, Vessel).
(Node) name: its caption (display name).
(Node) topics: its topics (e.g. sanction, role.pep, role.rca for relatives and close associates, crime, debarment, poi for persons of interest).
(Node) countries: its countries (two-letter codes, from the country, jurisdiction, nationality and citizenship properties).
(Node) birth_date (persons): the first date of birth given (YYYY, YYYY-MM or YYYY-MM-DD; empty if none).
(Node) datasets: the source datasets of OpenSanctions in which it appears.
(Node) is_target: whether it is a "target" of screening (sanctioned, PEP, wanted, etc.), as opposed to a related entity.
(Node) first_seen, last_seen, last_change: the times of its first and last appearance in the sources and of its last change (ISO 8601).
(Node) properties: all its FtM properties, as a JSON object of lists of values.
(Edge) schema: the FtM schema of the relationship (e.g. Ownership, Family), or the name of the referencing property (e.g. addressEntity).
(Edge) relation_id: the id of the relationship entity (empty for references).
(Edge) role: the role or kind of the relationship (role or relationship property, e.g. father, subsidiary of; empty if none).
(Edge) start_date, end_date: the first start and end dates given (empty if none).
(Edge) datasets: the source datasets of the relationship.
(Edge) properties: all the FtM properties of the relationship entity, as a JSON object (empty for references).

Tags

Social Economic Political Affiliation Multigraph Unweighted Metadata

Added

2026-10-31

Citation

OpenSanctions, "OpenSanctions Default collection." Version 20261031125407-kkl (2026) www.opensanctions.org

Upstream URL OK

https://www.opensanctions.org/datasets/default/

Upstream license

CC BY-NC 4.0 (commercial use requires a license from OpenSanctions), https://www.opensanctions.org/licensing/

Networks

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Column legend

$\left<k\right>$: Mean degree
$\sigma_k$: Standard deviation of the degrees
$\lambda_h$: Largest eigenvalue of the Hashimoto (non-backtracking) matrix
$\tau$: Random walk mixing time
$r$: Degree assortativity
$c$: Global clustering coefficient
$\oslash$: (Pseudo-) diameter
$S$: Relative size of the largest component
NPs: Node properties
EPs: Edge properties

Name	Nodes	Edges	$\left<k\right>$	$\sigma_k$	$\lambda_h$	$\tau$	$r$	$c$	$\oslash$	$S$	Kind	Mode	NPs	EPs	gt	GraphML	GML	csv
opensanctions	1,801,650	1,525,805	0.85	21.58	57.08	33582.35	-0.05	0.00	70	0.36	Directed	Unipartite	entity_id schema name topics countries birth_date datasets is_target first_seen last_seen last_change properties	schema relation_id role start_date end_date datasets properties	187.5 MiB	204.7 MiB	202.3 MiB	288.1 MiB