{"id":42547,"date":"2026-09-08T14:27:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T12:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/i-made-the-largest-real-japanese-people-dataset-with-37-attributes-231k-rows-name-gender-age-occupations-height-and-more\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T14:27:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T12:27:22","slug":"i-made-the-largest-real-japanese-people-dataset-with-37-attributes-231k-rows-name-gender-age-occupations-height-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/i-made-the-largest-real-japanese-people-dataset-with-37-attributes-231k-rows-name-gender-age-occupations-height-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"I Made The Largest Real Japanese People Dataset With 37 Attributes, 231k Rows. (name, Gender , Age, Occupations, Height And More)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- SC_OFF --><\/p>\n<div class=\"md\">\n<p>This dataset has all entry from wikidata who has Japanese citizenship and a wiki article, 231k in total. The dataset is on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaggle.com\/datasets\/rentoda\/jpersonwiki\">Kaggle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A dataset like this can only be built from data that&#8217;s already public, and Wikipedia is the largest source of that kind of public personal information. There are structured people datasets out there, but none cover as many Japanese entries as this one, which makes this the largest dataset of its kind.<\/p>\n<p>I Queried via SPARQL against the QLever Wikidata endpoint, then cleaned\/normalized with Python (name cleaning\/splitting, BMI calculation, etc). dataset is in CSV format, 65MB. with multiple entry column separated with &#8220;|&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sample rows<\/strong> (two people picked so together they cover every column):<\/p>\n<p>qid: Q160847<br \/> kanji: \u6771\u689d \u82f1\u6a5f<br \/> hiragana: \u3068\u3046\u3058\u3087\u3046 \u3072\u3067\u304d<br \/> description: \u65e5\u672c\u306e\u9678\u8ecd\u8ecd\u4eba\u3001\u653f\u6cbb\u5bb6\u3001\u7b2c40\u4ee3\u5185\u95a3\u7dcf\u7406\u5927\u81e3(1884-1948)<br \/> gender: M<br \/> birth_year: 1884<br \/> death_year: 1948<br \/> age: 64<br \/> death_age: 64<br \/> label: \u6771\u689d\u82f1\u6a5f<br \/> name_en: Hideki Tojo<br \/> is_japanese_name: True<br \/> readings: \u3068\u3046\u3058\u3087\u3046 \u3072\u3067\u304d<br \/> occupations: \u58eb\u5b98|\u653f\u6cbb\u5bb6|\u5916\u4ea4\u5b98<br \/> birth_places: \u9eb9\u753a\u533a<br \/> alma_maters: \u6771\u4eac\u9678\u8ecd\u5e7c\u5e74\u5b66\u6821|\u9678\u8ecd\u5927\u5b66\u6821|\u9678\u8ecd\u4e2d\u592e\u5e7c\u5e74\u5b66\u6821|\u9678\u8ecd\u58eb\u5b98\u5b66\u6821<br \/> positions_held: \u5185\u52d9\u5927\u81e3|\u5185\u95a3\u7dcf\u7406\u5927\u81e3|\u5916\u52d9\u5927\u81e3|\u8ecd\u9700\u7701|\u9678\u8ecd\u7701|\u6587\u90e8\u7701|\u53c2\u8b00\u672c\u90e8|\u8fb2\u5546\u52d9\u537f<br \/> death_places: \u5de3\u9d28\u62d8\u7f6e\u6240<br \/> death_causes: \u7e0a\u6b7b<br \/> death_manners: \u6b7b\u5211<br \/> fathers: \u6771\u689d\u82f1\u6559<br \/> mothers: \u6771\u689d\u5343\u6b73<br \/> spouses: \u6771\u689d\u304b\u3064\u5b50<br \/> children: \u6771\u689d\u654f\u592b|\u6771\u689d\u8f1d\u96c4|\u6771\u689d\u6e80\u559c\u679d<br \/> awards: \u5927\u793c\u8a18\u5ff5\u7ae0|\u30c1\u30e5\u30e9\u30c1\u30e7\u30fc\u30e0\u30af\u30e9\u30fc\u30aa\u52f2\u7ae0|&#8230;(18 total)<br \/> parties: \u5927\u653f\u7ffc\u8cdb\u4f1a<br \/> notable_works: \u6771\u689d\u82f1\u6a5f\u306e\u907a\u8a00|\u5927\u8a54\u3092\u62dd\u3057\u5949\u308a\u3066<br \/> military_branches: \u5927\u65e5\u672c\u5e1d\u56fd\u9678\u8ecd|\u95a2\u6771\u8ecd<br \/> military_ranks: \u9678\u8ecd\u5927\u5c06<br \/> wiki_url: <a href=\"https:\/\/ja.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%E6%9D%B1%E6%A2%9D%E8%8B%B1%E6%A9%9F\">https:\/\/ja.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/\u6771\u689d\u82f1\u6a5f<\/a><br \/> image_url: <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Special:FilePath\/Hideki%20Tojo.jpg\">http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Special:FilePath\/Hideki%20Tojo.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>qid: Q11467665<br \/> kanji: \u5c71\u54b2 \u30c8\u30aa\u30eb<br \/> hiragana: \u3084\u307e\u3056\u304d \u3068\u304a\u308b<br \/> description: \u65e5\u672c\u306e\u6f2b\u753b\u5bb6\u3001\u30bf\u30ec\u30f3\u30c8<br \/> gender: M<br \/> birth_year: 1969<br \/> age: 57<br \/> label: \u5c71\u54b2\u30c8\u30aa\u30eb<br \/> name_en: T\u014dru Yamazaki<br \/> is_japanese_name: True<br \/> readings: \u3084\u307e\u3056\u304d \u3068\u304a\u308b<br \/> occupations: \u30bf\u30ec\u30f3\u30c8|\u65e5\u672c\u306e\u6f2b\u753b\u5bb6<br \/> birth_places: \u6771\u4eac\u90fd<br \/> genres: \u30db\u30e9\u30fc\u6f2b\u753b<br \/> height_cm: 170.0<br \/> weight_kg: 57.0<br \/> bmi: 19.7<br \/> siblings: \u4e2d\u6ca2\u521d\u7d75<br \/> wiki_url: <a href=\"https:\/\/ja.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%E5%B1%B1%E5%92%B2%E3%83%88%E3%82%AA%E3%83%AB\">https:\/\/ja.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/\u5c71\u54b2\u30c8\u30aa\u30eb<\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Potential Use Cases &amp; As a Dataset<\/h1>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th align=\"left\">Dataset Angle<\/th>\n<th align=\"left\">Task<\/th>\n<th align=\"left\">Columns<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\">Japanese Name with Gender<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Gender inference from name<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">kanji, hiragana, gender<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\">Kanji, Hiragana Name Pairs<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Reading (furigana) prediction<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">kanji, hiragana, readings<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\">Family Relations<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Genealogy \/ kinship network analysis<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">fathers, mothers, spouses, siblings, children<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\">Portrait Images<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Gender\/age\/occupation estimation<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">image_url, gender, birth_year<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\">Athlete \/ Model Physique<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Body-composition trend analysis by occupation<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">height_cm, weight_kg, bmi, occupations<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\">Politicians<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Politician attribute &amp; career analysis<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">parties, positions_held, birth_places, alma_maters<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\">Awards<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Field\/attribute analysis of award recipients<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">awards, occupations, gender<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\">Cause &amp; Manner of Death<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Statistical analysis of death cause and age<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">death_causes, death_manners, death_age<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\">Birthplace \/ Alma Mater<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Geographic distribution and education-career correlation<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">birth_places, alma_maters, occupations<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\">Age<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Age-based demographic analysis<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">birth_year, death_year, death_age<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\">Writers \/ Artists Database<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Classification of writers\/artists by notable works and genre<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">notable_works, genres, occupations<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\">Military<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Historical figures database<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">military_branches, military_ranks, birth_year<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>limitations<\/strong>: The least-filled column, <code>military_ranks<\/code>, has only ~3k rows filled, while the average filled-column count per row is 15.25 out of 37 (41.2%). No rows are dropped to keep this the full Wiki-derived dataset. But I added <code>is_japanese_name<\/code> column so you can reliably excludes non-Japanese names (virtually no false negatives, ~0.1% false positives). About 1% of rows have a reversed family\/given order in the <code>hiragana<\/code> column.<\/p>\n<p>Crawler code : <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaggle.com\/code\/rentoda\/jpersonwiki-crawler\">Kaggle notebook<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/ren255\/jpersonwiki_crawler\">GitHub<\/a>. This dataset will be updated automatically with the crawler.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- SC_ON -->   submitted by   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/Careful_Sand_7838\"> \/u\/Careful_Sand_7838 <\/a> <br \/> <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1walxvf\/i_made_the_largest_real_japanese_people_dataset\/\">[link]<\/a><\/span>   <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1walxvf\/i_made_the_largest_real_japanese_people_dataset\/\">[comments]<\/a><\/span><\/p><div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-right'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-42547 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='42547' data-nonce='b9a40cecc8' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-42547 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-42547 status align-right'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This dataset has all entry from wikidata who has Japanese citizenship and a wiki article, 231k in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-datatards","wpcat-85-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}