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Entities

Name: Comic Book Co Codex: Entities
Creator: Comic Book Co
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Every record in the Codex, of every type. The spine every other table joins to: characters, teams, powers, people, films, shows, episodes, games, comic and manga series, publishers, studios and universes.

entities.csv

38,317 rows · UTF-8 CSV with a header row

codex.sqlite.gz

this table and every other, as table entities

datapackage.json

schema, primary and foreign keys (Frictionless standard)

All tables

the full catalog

Columns

Column	Type	Meaning
`id`	string	Permanent id, '<type>:<slug>'
`type`	string	Record type
`name`	string	Display name
`level`	string	entity = the canonical record; version = that record in one continuity (Spider-Man in the MCU); variant = an in-fiction alternate
`canonical_id`	string	For versions and variants, the canonical record they belong to → `entities`
`description`	string	Short description (our summary where curated, else the source's)
`first_year`	integer	Year of first publication or release, where known
`curated`	boolean	true = hand-built and evidence-gated by Comic Book Co; false = imported by the data pipeline
`wikidata`	string	Wikidata QID

Licence and provenance

CC BY 4.0 — cite Comic Book Co Codex, https://comicbookco.com/codex/. The Codex combines Comic Book Co editorial records with rows ingested from Wikidata (CC0 1.0) by deterministic code; the compiled table is published by Comic Book Co under CC BY 4.0.

Last updated 2026-09-06