license:mit size_categories:10K<n<100K format:json modality:text library:datasets library:pandas library:mlcroissant library:polars region:us
---
license: mit
---

This dataset contains 28155 rows.
It was created automatically from wikidata.


**Included fields**
- person: link to wikidata entry of this person
- personLabel: Name as it appears on Wikipedia
- sitelinks: Count of sites linking to this person. Measure of popularity. Minimum in this dataset is 31
- dateOfBirth: Date of Birth. Minimum is 0000-01-01
- dateOfDeath: Date of Death. Might be null
- birthName: Birth Name. Might be null

The exact dates might be inaccurate. Especially for dates in the range of 0 to 1500.

Query to reproduce:
```
SELECT ?person ?personLabel (SAMPLE(?birthDates) AS ?dateOfBirth) (SAMPLE(?deathDates) AS ?dateOfDeath) ?sitelinks (SAMPLE(?birthNames) AS ?birthName) WHERE {
  ?article schema:about ?person ;
           schema:inLanguage "en" ;
           schema:isPartOf <https://en.wikipedia.org/>.
  ?person wdt:P31 wd:Q5 ; 
          wikibase:sitelinks ?sitelinks ; 
  OPTIONAL { ?person wdt:P569 ?birthDates. }
  OPTIONAL { ?person wdt:P570 ?deathDates. }
  OPTIONAL { ?person wdt:P1477 ?birthNames . } .
  FILTER(?sitelinks > 30)
  FILTER((YEAR(?birthDates) >= 0))
  SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "[AUTO_LANGUAGE],en". }
}
GROUP BY ?person ?personLabel ?sitelinks
ORDER BY DESC(?sitelinks)
```