---
id: "gleif_entity_category"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["companies", "finances"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 85
url: "https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/gleif_entity_category"
---

# GLEIF legal entity category (`gleif_entity_category`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

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`
- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Companies/business/organizations (companies), Finances and banking (finances)
- Countries: global
- Languages: Common to most languages (common)
- Classification: categorical

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

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

## Examples

- `GENERAL`
- `FUND`
- `BRANCH`
- `SOLE_PROPRIETOR`
- `COMPANY` (invalid example) — Not a GLEIF category

## Metacrafter rules

1 rules: 0 match the field name, 1 match values.

- `gleifentitycategoryvalue` (data, `common/orgs.yaml`)

## Supported by tools

- `metacrafter`

## Sources

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

## Quality

Score 85/100. Missing: mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), translation.

JSON: <https://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/gleif_entity_category.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/any/companies/gleif_entity_category.yaml>