Quotegraph: A Social Network Derived from Millions of News Quotations

Quotegraph is a large social network represented as a directed graph extracted from quotations in Quotebank. Edges point from the speaker of a quotation to a person mentioned in that quotation. The names of the actors are linked to Wikidata using quotebank-toolkit. Quotegraph boasts 528k nodes and 8.6 million edges, which makes it suitable for a large-scale analysis of speaker interactions in news articles. Below is the schema of Quotegraph, stored in quotegraph.parquet.tar.gz: |-- quoteID: string: primary key of the quotation (format: "YYYY-MM-DD-{increasing int:06d}") |-- speaker: string: Wikidata QID of a speaker who uttered the quotation (source node)|-- target: string: Wikidata QID of a person mentioned in the quotation (target node)|-- quotation: string: Textual content of the quotation|-- date: Earliest occurrence date of any version of the quotation The data can further be enriched by the information about quotations and articles they appear in (available in Quotebank and Wikidata information about the actors available in speaker_attributes.parquet.tar.gz. The schema of the dataset is given below: |-- id: Wikidata item QID of the speaker, primary key|-- aliases: list of speaker's aliases|-- date_of_birth: list of possible speaker's dates of birth|-- nationality: list of speaker's nationalities|-- gender: list of speaker's previous or current genders|-- ethnic_group: list of ethnic groups the speaker belongs to|-- US_congress_bio_ID: identifier for the speaker in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|-- occupation: list of speaker's occupations|-- party: list of parties the speaker is/was affiliated with|-- academic_degree: list of academic degrees obtained by the speaker|-- label: Wikidata label of the speaker|-- religion: previous/current religious affiliations of the speaker