Prompt
What dataset should I use if I need open data with clear provenance?
Latest observation
If you need open data with clear provenance, a good default choice is:
Best overall: Wikidata
- Open license: CC0
- Clear provenance: many statements include source references
- Well documented and widely used
- Good for entities like people, places, organizations, works, events
Other strong options
- OpenStreetMap — excellent provenance for geographic data; community-edited with change history
- DBpedia — derived from Wikipedia, but provenance is less direct than Wikidata
- Government open data portals — often the best for official statistics, usually with strong source documentation
- World Bank Open Data / OECD / UN data — strong provenance for socioeconomic and development data
If “clear provenance” is the top priority
Look for datasets that provide:
- Source citations or references
- Version history / changelogs
- License terms
- Methodology documentation
- Downloadable raw data
Quick recommendation by use case
- General knowledge / entity data: Wikidata
- Maps / locations: OpenStreetMap
- Official statistics: government or international organization open data
- Research data: institutional repositories with DOI and metadata
If you want, I can recommend a dataset based on your exact domain, like health, finance, geography, or NLP.
Observation history
How did Obsurfable measure this prompt?
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Qwen.
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