Entity type
The observed, reported, measured, or estimated entity type for an organisation, on the basis and date stated by the source.
Sources that carry it
15 sourcesOne BrokerCheck Source combining public arbitrary-name/CRD lookup and FINRA offered broker/firm downloads. It documents individual and firm identity, registrations, employment, qualifications, ownership/executive roles, business activities, affiliations, and disclosure-event concepts. No unofficial endpoint, residential address, or full birth date is claimed.
Standing governmental name/ID lookup covering registered business and not-for-profit entity types and assumed names. Current first-party controls document name/ID, status, entity-type and corpus inputs; product-specific matched identity, status, type and assumed-name outputs are retained only at documented or explicit high-confidence conceptual maturity.
Authenticated production API for buyer-selected companies. Search returns a connectId and the same product retrieves the country-specific full credit report. The U.S. schema emits legal-filing summaries plus repeated UCC and tax-lien details. Search, schema, and report endpoints are delivery steps of one Connect product.
Public governmental filer-submissions product delivered as an unauthenticated per-CIK JSON API and the same product's nightly submissions.zip archive. It exposes filer identity and classification, contact/address metadata, former names, tickers and exchanges, compact current filing-history scalar arrays, references to additional historical JSON files, and the corresponding historical filing-metadata arrays. Filing documents, exhibits, XBRL facts, and filer submission/status workflows are outside this Source.
Commercial API and Console access to Enigma's U.S. business graph of brands, legal entities, and operating locations. Search accepts buyer-selected id, name, website, person criteria, or address. Secretary-of-State data underlies registered-entity facts; repeated graph relationships carry affiliation/role and observation dates in Source prose and are not certified officer facts.
Commercial U.S. Businesses API suite. A buyer can search an unrelated U.S. business by name/address for an Experian BIN, then request firmographic, registration, bankruptcy, tax-lien, UCC, contact, linkage, score, and other documented modules. Tax-lien and UCC endpoints are modules, not separate Sources; repeated detail structures remain prose.
Public global REST/JSON:API access to the Golden Copy-derived LEI search engine. Organisations can be selected by LEI or searched by legal-entity fields; singular responses expose Level 1 identity/status and reported direct/ultimate accounting-consolidating parent Relationship Records. No beneficial-owner or transitive graph inference is made.
Global CC0 full/delta file family published three times daily in CSV, JSON, and XML. One product includes Level 1 LEI-CDF, Level 2 RR-CDF relationship records, and reporting exceptions, with exact scalar leaves inside documented repeated periods and qualifiers. Relationships are reported accounting-consolidation relationships, not inferred beneficial ownership.
One public investment-adviser registry Source combining IAPD arbitrary firm/representative lookup with current XML compilations and historical Form ADV Part 1 CSV archives. Exact scalar leaves cover firm and representative identity, registrations, offices, owners/executives, affiliations, employment, business activities, filing pins, and disclosure indicators. Private-residence location/contact leaves and document bodies are excluded.
Commercial API/dashboard add-on to Business Verification for buyer-initiated U.S. lien searches. Current first-party documentation covers business UCC, federal-tax, and state-tax liens and associated-person UCC/tax-lien order modes. Results use documented lien objects with filing identity, parties, jurisdiction, source-emitted status and status category, filing/update/lapse dates, normalized collateral type, negative-pledge indication, and monetary fields. Filing/termination services, monitoring events, bankruptcy, and Secretary-of-State verification remain outside this Source boundary.
Nationwide bulk data listing coal and metal/non-metal mines tracked by MSHA from January 1, 1970 to the present, including mine identity, status, ownership, location, commodities, staffing, and physical and operational characteristics.
Nationwide inspection case detail for federal and state-plan OSHA inspections, including establishment and site identifiers, industry codes, inspection classifications, workforce and union indicators, and case dates. Published through the U.S. Department of Labor Open Data Portal as a downloadable CSV archive.
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Free standing one-company browser lookup returning a condensed MCMIS profile with identity and address, registration and authority status, operation and cargo classifications, reported fleet and driver figures, inspection and crash summaries, and safety rating. Power Units aggregates specified equipment owned, term leased, or trip leased by the carrier and is not title ownership.
Paid 24/7 standing entity search plus reusable BEST master unloads and daily/weekly updates. Filed images and certificate/copy orders are excluded; search and bulk are delivery modes of one product.
Florida's official business-entity index through standing browser searches and free fixed-width files. Workday files contain new filings; quarterly files contain all data on record. Separate federal-lien and other file families are not collapsed into this Source.
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