Wikidata (XI-WIKIDATA)

Description

Wikidata is a free knowledge base that anyone can edit. It holds linked open data about tens of millions of entities and more than one million of them are organizations. Each instition item can hold a wide range of statements, names in hundreds of languages and identifiers in other databases.

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Wikidata is free to read, reuse and modify. It is released under the Creative Commons CC0 license.

Find and use identifiers

Search for an organization on Wikidata. There are also a wide range of tools to retrieve a Wikidata item using other identifiers or reconciliation heuristics.

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How to use

The code for this list is XI-WIKIDATA.

When you have located the organization you wish to identify in this list, you should either:

Enter it in an identifier database field prefixed with XI-WIKIDATA.

XI-WIKIDATA-[ IDENTIFIER ]

Examples

                
XI-WIKIDATA-Q1377
                
XI-WIKIDATA-Q152057

Alternatively, use it within a two-part identifier, with XI-WIKIDATA as the 'scheme', and the identifier you have located as the 'identifier' field.

Coverage: XI
Legal structure: charity, company, government_agency, trust, unincorporated_body
List Type: third_party
Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikidata

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