Infobox Infobox Astronaut

Formatting errors, evolving implementations for infobox templates, and
the nature of user-generated content mean that there are many
inconsistencies within infobox groupings. For example, the same date
field may in some cases be populated by a full date string, in others
a year, and in others a date-formatting template instance.

However, these are still in somewhat rough shape and may have
conversion errors. Please report bugs at
http://getsatisfaction.com/infochimps — and if you are interested in helping
to improve these datasets contact the infochimps

Furthermore, parameters to wikipedia templates can be given positionally
or by name. If there are many fields labelled ‘1:’, ‘2:’, etc you will have
to refer to the original Template page on wikipedia to map these fields.

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{kind:object, rows:555, cols:27}

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others are admittedly complete rubbish. We are fully aware of
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Wikipedia indiscriminately for its content model but to use it
with an informed understanding of what it is and what it
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• Mine template definitions (the actual implementation on Wikipedia) for better
  field descriptions and to cull spurious field values

• Also, use the template definitions to convert positional-parameters
  to uniformly named-parameters

• Many of these tables are “subclassed” — for example all of the
  infobox_olympics_[COUNTRY] templates. Help identify and unify these
  subclassed objects

• Tag fields with semantic information

Wikipedia’s Infoboxes – Wikipedia

The datasets here are generated from intermediate dumpfiles prepared
by DBpedia, “a community effort to extract structured information from
Wikipedia and to make this information available on the Web.”