WikidataCon 2025

Wikidata has the potential to be a global record of political leadership, but keeping this information current, verifiable, and globally inclusive is a challenge. PoliLoom offers a pipeline that pairs AI-assisted extraction with human oversight to address this need.

PoliLoom is an experiment in “verification-first AI” for Wikidata. The project extracts candidate statements about politicians from Wikipedia using large language models, reconciles them to Wikidata items with similarity search, and presents each claim with archived source text and highlighted proof lines. Through a review interface tied to MediaWiki OAuth, contributors approve or reject claims with clear evidence.

This session will show how PoliLoom combines automation with human verification to maintain accurate, time-bound records of political office. It demonstrates a scalable pipeline that processes full Wikidata dumps, handles semantic reconciliation, and generates structured statements ready for integration. The talk will highlight how this work supports developers, GLAM professionals, researchers, language advocates, community organizers in building a verifiable and inclusive democratic memory on Wikidata.