GLEIF legal entity category

ID gleif_entity_category

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Category of a legal entity in the LEI records of the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (LEI-CDF EntityCategory): GENERAL, FUND, BRANCH, SOLE_PROPRIETOR, RESIDENT_GOVERNMENT_ENTITY or INTERNATIONAL_ORGANIZATION.

Parent datatype

Category category

Categories

Companies/business/organizations, Finances and banking

Countries

Global (not tied to a country)

Languages

Common to most languages

Quality

85/100 · missing: mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), translation

Metacrafter rules

1 rule (0 by field name, 1 by value)

gleifentitycategoryvalue data, common/orgs.yaml

Supported by tools

metacrafter

Regular expression

^(?:GENERAL|FUND|BRANCH|SOLE_PROPRIETOR|RESIDENT_GOVERNMENT_ENTITY|INTERNATIONAL_ORGANIZATION)$

Python re syntax.

Examples

Value	Description
GENERAL
FUND
BRANCH
SOLE_PROPRIETOR
COMPANY invalid	Not a GLEIF category

Sources

doc: https://www.gleif.org/en/about-lei/common-data-file-format

Use this record

Page URL: https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/gleif_entity_category
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