Classes of untyped records
The class (person, place, organisation, work, subject) of records that their datasets state no type for, so that they appear on the entity pages.
The articles of the YIVO Encyclopedia (dataset yivo) have no rdf:type. Their class is taken from the Wikidata item
of the article (property P8569, the classes of its instance-of statements): humans are persons; geographic
locations, administrative territorial entities and settlements places; organisations organisations; written works,
periodicals and creative works works. Articles without such an item are persons if their abstract starts with life
dates, “(1880–1963), revolutionary and publicist”, and subjects otherwise.
The persons of Footprints (dataset footprints) are persons or organisations; the API does not tell them apart. A person is an organisation if its VIAF record (the VIAF number given by Footprints) is one, or if its name names an institution, a firm or a group (library, seminary, congregation, bookseller, printing house, heirs, “&”, in the languages of the data); every other one is a person.
The classes are assigned automatically and not checked one by one.
| Kind: | Complement |
|---|---|
| Method: |
Lookup, Rule-based
Automated: statements made by a method that can be wrong individually and were not checked one by one. |
| Example: | http://data.judaicalink.org/data/yivo/abramovich_rafail |
| Maintained by: | Kai Eckert |
| License: |
CC0
|
| Generator: | generators/record-classes (how every version was made) |
| All locations: | Where the files of this dataset are (data finder) |
Versions
2026-11-11 stable · Kai Eckert
| File | Size | Triples | SHA-256 |
|---|---|---|---|
| record-classes.ttl.gz | 51.1 kB | 13,440 | 70d175f4748e… |
| record-classes-meta.ttl.gz | 2.6 kB | 72 | 5515feb854e2… |
2026-10-26 older · Kai Eckert
The classes of the yivo articles, as 2026-10-18, and of the Footprints persons (person or organisation).
| File | Size | Triples | SHA-256 |
|---|---|---|---|
| record-classes.ttl.gz | 51.1 kB | 13,440 | fe59603fca41… |
| record-classes-meta.ttl.gz | 2.6 kB | 73 | 28104bfce3b4… |
2026-10-12 older · Kai Eckert
Classes of the yivo articles: from their Wikidata item, else life dates (person), else subject.
| File | Size | Triples | SHA-256 |
|---|---|---|---|
| record-classes.ttl.gz | 16.2 kB | 1,798 | dceebb594536… |
| record-classes-meta.ttl.gz | 2.2 kB | 62 | c7e3294345d5… |
Changelog
- 2026-11-11 (version 2026-11-11), Kai Eckert: Made again on the stable versions of 2026-11-11 (the authority datasets and linksets of the cascade of 2026-11-11; decision 0043).
- 2026-10-31 (version 2026-10-18), Kai Eckert: Pruned (decision 0041): no longer published; its files, sizes and checksums are in the git history of this entry.
- 2026-10-26 (version 2026-10-26), Kai Eckert: New version, made the stable version: also the classes of the 11,642 persons of footprints 2026-10-26 (decision 0034): organisation by VIAF 119, by name 766; person 10,757.
- 2026-10-26 (version 2026-10-26), Kai Eckert: New version, made by the generator in judaicalink-data (run-20261026T072452Z).
- 2026-10-18 (version 2026-10-18), Kai Eckert: Classes of the common layer: skos:Concept (356), schema:Place (199), schema:CreativeWork (54) instead of jl:Subject, jl:Place, jl:Work.
- 2026-10-12 (version 2026-10-12), Kai Eckert: First version (decision 0025): the 1,798 yivo articles typed: 1,092 persons (986 by Wikidata, 106 by life dates), 199 places, 97 organisations, 54 works, 356 subjects.
