kg-enricher

kg-enricher is an open source Python library for enriching strings, entities and knowledge graphs using Wikibase knowledge graphs. It's adapted for people, organizations and German geographic entities, both modern and historical. By default it connects to Wikidata, but it can be configured for any Wikibase instance.

Context. In project BERD@NFDI there are multiple knowledge graphs with German company data. We link strings to entities and enrich strings with data from knowledge graphs. For geographic strings we also check whether geographic coordinates of an entity correspond to a point inside modern or historical German boundaries using the CShapes 2.0 Dataset.

Table of contents

• Installation
• How to use
• Geographic linking
• Extra parameters
• Archived code

Installation

pip install kg-enricher

or

git clone https://github.com/UB-Mannheim/kg-enricher
cd kg-enricher/
pip install .

How to use

Just import enrich-function and apply it to strings, which correspond to people, organizations or geographic entities.

An example for a person:

from enricher import enrich
enrich("Adolf Daimler")
{'label': 'Adolf Daimler',
 'description': 'German entrepreneur (1871-1913)',
 'aliases': [],
 'id': 'Q361191',
 'url': 'https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:EntityData/Q361191',
 'date_of_birth': {'time': '+1871-09-08T00:00:00Z',
  'timezone': 0,
  'before': 0,
  'after': 0,
  'precision': 11,
  'calendarmodel': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1985727'},
 'date_of_death': {'time': '+1913-03-24T00:00:00Z',
  'timezone': 0,
  'before': 0,
  'after': 0,
  'precision': 11,
  'calendarmodel': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1985727'},
 'VIAF ID': '77537760',
 'ISNI': '0000 0000 2006 7510',
 'GND ID': '135728673',
 'Google Knowledge Graph ID': '/g/11mvrmlm7'}

An example for a geographic entity:

from enricher import enrich
enrich("Mannheim")
{'label': 'Mannheim',
 'description': 'city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany',
 'aliases': ['Mannem',
  'Monnem',
  'Universitätsstadt Mannheim',
  'Mannheim, Germany',
  'Mannheim (Germany)',
  'Mannheim Germany'],
 'id': 'Q2119',
 'url': 'https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:EntityData/Q2119',
 'GeoNames ID': '2873891',
 'Geographic coordinates': {'latitude': 49.48777777777778,
  'longitude': 8.466111111111111,
  'altitude': None,
  'precision': 0.0002777777777777778,
  'globe': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2'},
 'OSM Relation ID': '62691',
 'German district key': '08222',
 'German municipality key': '08222000',
 'German regional key': '082220000000',
 'UN/LOCODE': 'DEMHG',
 'Freebase ID': '/m/0pf5y',
 'OpenStreetMap node ID': '240060919',
 'is_within_current_germany': True,
 'is_within_historical_germany_1886_1919': True,
 'is_within_historical_germany_1919_1920': True,
 'is_within_historical_germany_1920_1938': True,
 'is_within_historical_germany_1938_1945': True,
 'is_within_historical_GFR_1945_1949': True,
 'is_within_historical_GFR_1949_1990': True,
 'is_within_historical_GFR_1990_2019': True,
 'is_within_historical_GDR_1945_1949': False,
 'is_within_historical_GDR_1949_1990': False}

An example for an organization:

from enricher import enrich
enrich("BASF SE")
{'label': 'BASF',
 'description': 'German chemical company with worldwide reach',
 'aliases': ['Badische Anilin- & Soda-Fabrik',
  'Baden Aniline and Soda Factory',
  'BASF SE',
  'Badische Anilin- und Soda-Fabrik'],
 'id': 'Q9401',
 'url': 'https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:EntityData/Q9401',
 'inception': {'time': '+1865-04-06T00:00:00Z',
  'timezone': 0,
  'before': 0,
  'after': 0,
  'precision': 11,
  'calendarmodel': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1985727'},
 'LEI code': '529900PM64WH8AF1E917',
 'GRID ID': 'grid.3319.8',
 'ISIN': 'DE000BASF111',
 'EU Transparency Register ID': '7410939793-88',
 'Freebase ID': '/m/01713t',
 'EU Research participant ID': '999829926',
 'German Lobbyregister ID': 'R002326',
 'LinkedIn organization ID': 'basf',
 'PermID': '4295869198',
 'PM20 folder ID': 'co/002589'}

Geographic linking

For geographic linking we use the geographic coordinates of an entity from Wikidata and check whether the point belongs to the boundaries of Germany using geojson files provided by the CShapes 2.0 Dataset. The historical geographic boundaries of Germany from the CShapes 2.0 Dataset can be found at https://demo.ldproxy.net under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).

We use the following maps of Germany:

If you use kg-enricher on geographic entities, please cite the following paper due to the license of the CShapes 2.0 Dataset: Schvitz, G., Girardin, L., Rüegger, S., Weidmann, N. B., Cederman, L.-E., & Gleditsch, K. S. (2022). Mapping the International System, 1886-2019: The CShapes 2.0 Dataset. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 66(1), 144-161. https://doi.org/10.1177/00220027211013563.

An example for "West Berlin":

from enricher import enrich
enrich("West Berlin")
{'label': 'West Berlin',
 'description': 'the Western sectors of Berlin between 1945 and 1990',
 'aliases': ['Berlin (West)', 'Westberlin', 'WB'],
 'id': 'Q56036',
 'url': 'https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:EntityData/Q56036',
 'GeoNames ID': '11612751',
 'Geographic coordinates': {'latitude': 52.5,
  'longitude': 13.28,
  'altitude': None,
  'precision': 0.0002777777777777778,
  'globe': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2'},
 'Freebase ID': '/m/082g6',
 'is_within_current_germany': True,
 'is_within_historical_germany_1886_1919': True,
 'is_within_historical_germany_1919_1920': True,
 'is_within_historical_germany_1920_1938': True,
 'is_within_historical_germany_1938_1945': True,
 'is_within_historical_GFR_1945_1949': False,
 'is_within_historical_GFR_1949_1990': False,
 'is_within_historical_GFR_1990_2019': True,
 'is_within_historical_GDR_1945_1949': True,
 'is_within_historical_GDR_1949_1990': True}

An example for "East Berlin":

from enricher import enrich
enrich("East Berlin")
{'label': 'East Berlin',
 'description': 'Soviet sector of Berlin between 1949 and 1990',
 'aliases': ['Soviet zone of Berlin',
  'Berlin-Ost',
  'Ostberlin',
  'Soviet sector of Berlin',
  'Berlin, Hauptstadt der DDR',
  'Berlin Hauptstadt der DDR'],
 'id': 'Q56037',
 'url': 'https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:EntityData/Q56037',
 'Geographic coordinates': {'latitude': 52.518611111111,
  'longitude': 13.404444444444,
  'altitude': None,
  'precision': None,
  'globe': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2'},
 'Freebase ID': '/m/02lcc',
 'is_within_current_germany': True,
 'is_within_historical_germany_1886_1919': True,
 'is_within_historical_germany_1919_1920': True,
 'is_within_historical_germany_1920_1938': True,
 'is_within_historical_germany_1938_1945': True,
 'is_within_historical_GFR_1945_1949': False,
 'is_within_historical_GFR_1949_1990': False,
 'is_within_historical_GFR_1990_2019': True,
 'is_within_historical_GDR_1945_1949': True,
 'is_within_historical_GDR_1949_1990': True}

Extra parameters

To get more than one matched entities, use limit-parameter (default is 1):

enrich('Heidelberg', limit=3)
```

To get labels, descriptions, and aliases in a specific language, use `language`-parameter (default is "en"):

enrich('Breslau', language="de")

To get entities only for a certain entity types, use `entity-type`-parameter. Possible values are "org", "per", "geo" and None. Default is None, so it enriches with entities of any type.

enrich('Mannheim', entity_type="geo")

You can combine those parameters:

pprint(enrich('Cöln', limit=5, language="de", entity_type='geo')) [{'error': 'Entity does not match the specified entity type', 'id': 'Q105550033'}, {'error': 'Entity does not match the specified entity type', 'id': 'Q37262196'}, {'Freebase ID': '/m/01v8c', 'GeoNames ID': '2886242', 'German district key': '05315', 'German municipality key': '05315000', 'German regional key': '053150000000', 'OSM Relation ID': '62578', 'aliases': ['Kölle', 'Köln, Deutschland', 'Köln (Deutschland)', 'Colonia', 'Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium', 'CCAA', 'Cöln', 'Cöln am Rhein'], 'description': 'Millionenmetropole am Rhein und bevölkerungsreichste Stadt ' 'in Nordrhein-Westfalen', 'geographic coordinates': {'altitude': None, 'globe': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2', 'latitude': 50.942222222222, 'longitude': 6.9577777777778, 'precision': 0.00027777777777778}, 'id': 'Q365', 'is_within_current_germany': True, 'is_within_historical_GDR_1945_1949': False, 'is_within_historical_GDR_1949_1990': False, 'is_within_historical_GFR_1945_1949': True, 'is_within_historical_GFR_1949_1990': True, 'is_within_historical_GFR_1990_2019': True, 'is_within_historical_germany_1886_1919': True, 'is_within_historical_germany_1919_1920': True, 'is_within_historical_germany_1920_1938': True, 'is_within_historical_germany_1938_1945': True, 'label': 'Köln', 'url': 'https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:EntityData/Q365'}, {'error': 'Entity does not match the specified entity type', 'id': 'Q35872'}, {'error': 'Entity does not match the specified entity type', 'id': 'Q18019200'}]

## Archived code

Shigapov, R. (2023). KG-enricher: An open-source Python library for enriching strings, entities and knowledge graphs using Wikibase knowledge graphs (0.1.0). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10405073