Organization

An organization carries several simultaneous name forms with different legal weight. LEI-CDF distinguishes LegalName from OtherEntityNames, schema.org separates legalName from name and alternateName, and BODS separates name from alternateNames. Each form needs a kind, a language tag, and an explicit validity interval because names change without changing identity.

Questions

1. Which single name form is the legal name in the jurisdiction of formation, and which register or constitutive document evidences it?identity
   Expected answer

   • name string
   • name kind code (legal, trading, former, abbreviation, transliteration)
   • jurisdiction code (ISO 3166-1/-2)
   • evidencing register or document reference
2. In which languages and scripts is each name form authoritative, and is any Latin transliteration normative or merely convenience?interoperability
   Expected answer

   • BCP 47 language tag
   • script code (ISO 15924)
   • transliteration flag
   • transliteration method or authority
3. Over which interval was each name form valid, and is the interval closed, open-ended or unknown?temporal
   Expected answer

   • valid-from date or RFC 3339 timestamp
   • valid-to date or null
   • interval-precision indicator
   • source of the interval
4. Is the name form unique within its register, and may two distinct organizations legitimately carry the same string?constraint
   Expected answer

   • uniqueness scope (register, jurisdiction, none)
   • known homonym organization identifiers
   • disambiguation note

Artifacts

• Name evidence recordThe dated evidence backing a name assertion: a registry extract line, a constitutive document clause or a published notice, retained with its retrieval metadata.

Former names must remain retrievable and ordered, because lookups, sanctions screening and lineage tracing rely on historical strings. Companies House exposes previous_company_names as a first-class array and LEI-CDF carries name changes inside LegalEntityEvents; a purely current-state name model loses answerable history.

Questions

1. What is the ordered sequence of legal names, and which change event caused each transition?lifecycle
   Expected answer

   • ordered list of name values
   • effective date of each change
   • lifecycle event reference
   • gap or overlap flag
2. Did any recorded name change coincide with a change of legal identity rather than a mere renaming?identity
   Expected answer

   • identity-continuity boolean
   • successor or predecessor organization reference
   • conversion or merger event reference
3. When was each historical name observed or ingested, as distinct from when it became legally effective?provenance
   Expected answer

   • event time (RFC 3339)
   • observation/ingestion time (RFC 3339)
   • asserting source identifier

An organization identifier is meaningless without its scheme. ISO 6523 ICD codes pair a numeric scheme designator with a value (0199 for LEI, 0060 for D-U-N-S, 0208 for the Belgian enterprise number); LEI-CDF pairs RegistrationAuthorityID with RegistrationAuthorityEntityID; BODS requires id plus scheme/schemeName or uri; and the EU EUID must itself be ISO 6523 compliant.

Questions

1. Under which governed scheme was each identifier issued, and what is the registered scheme designator for that scheme?identity
   Expected answer

   • scheme designator (ISO 6523 ICD code or register code)
   • scheme human-readable name
   • scheme governing organization
   • identifier value
2. Which authority issued the identifier, and is that authority listed in a governed registration-authority registry?authority
   Expected answer

   • registration authority code
   • authority name and jurisdiction
   • authority listing status
   • authority website
3. Can the identifier be reassigned, retired or superseded, and what happens to references when it is?lifecycle
   Expected answer

   • reassignability flag
   • retirement or supersession status
   • superseding identifier
   • effective date of change
4. How was the identifier verified against its issuing source, and when was that verification last performed?validation
   Expected answer

   • verification method
   • verification outcome
   • verification timestamp (RFC 3339)
   • verifying agent

Artifacts

• Identifier scheme catalogueLocal catalogue of accepted identifier schemes with designator, governing organization, syntax rule, check-character rule, reassignment policy and resolution endpoint, maintained as a versioned reference list.

Because many organizations hold several external identifiers and many hold none, the model must state a deterministic priority for choosing the canonical key: authoritative master-system identifier first, then a governed global identifier or IRI, then a UUID or ULID assigned by the adopting Dimension. Dates, names and addresses are never keys.

Questions

1. Which identifier is the canonical key for this organization record, and which rule in the identity priority selected it?identity
   Expected answer

   • canonical key value
   • canonical key scheme
   • priority tier applied (master-system, governed global, dimension-assigned)
   • selection rationale
2. Under which events may the canonical key change, and how are prior keys kept resolvable?constraint
   Expected answer

   • key-change trigger events
   • prior key values
   • alias retention policy
   • redirect or tombstone strategy
3. If the organization has no external identifier at all, what dimension-assigned identifier is used and who assigned it?identity
   Expected answer

   • UUID or ULID value
   • assigning dimension namespace
   • assignment timestamp (RFC 3339)
   • assigning agent
4. Within which namespace is the canonical key unique, and is that namespace globally resolvable?interoperability
   Expected answer

   • namespace URI or prefix
   • uniqueness scope
   • global resolvability flag

Governed registries themselves record duplicates — LEI RegistrationStatus includes DUPLICATE, and Companies House exposes partial_data_available and etag for concurrency. A defensible model therefore records the evidence, method and confidence behind every merge or split rather than asserting a silent match.

Questions

1. Which attributes and sources were compared to conclude that two candidate records denote the same organization?evidence
   Expected answer

   • compared attributes
   • source identifiers compared
   • match method (deterministic key, rule-based, probabilistic, human review)
   • match score or confidence band
2. Who decided the merge or split, when, and is the decision reversible?decision
   Expected answer

   • deciding agent
   • decision timestamp (RFC 3339)
   • decision outcome (merge, split, no-match, defer)
   • reversibility and rollback reference
3. Does an upstream register already flag one of the records as a duplicate or annulled registration?validation
   Expected answer

   • upstream registration status value
   • upstream record identifier
   • surviving record identifier
   • status observation timestamp
4. Which candidate pairs were explicitly rejected as non-matches, so the same comparison is not repeated?quality
   Expected answer

   • rejected pair identifiers
   • rejection reason
   • rejection timestamp
   • review-after date

Artifacts

• Entity resolution decision logAppend-only log of match, non-match, merge and split decisions with compared evidence, method, deciding agent, timestamps and rollback pointers.

Legal form is a four-character ELF code valid only in combination with a jurisdiction, drawn from a list of more than 3,600 forms across more than 200 jurisdictions. The reserved codes 8888 (form not yet listed) and 9999 (no separate legal form) make the absence of a form explicitly representable rather than null.

Questions

1. Which ELF code and jurisdiction pair describes the organization's legal form, and which code-list version was used?classification
   Expected answer

   • ELF code
   • jurisdiction code (ISO 3166-1 or -2)
   • ELF list version
   • local-language form name
2. If no listed legal form applies, is the correct representation 8888 (pending listing) or 9999 (no separate legal form), and why?exception
   Expected answer

   • reserved code used
   • justification text
   • free-text legal form as stated locally
   • review-after date
3. Has the legal form changed through conversion, and what is the effective date of each form assignment?lifecycle
   Expected answer

   • prior ELF code
   • conversion event reference
   • effective-from date
   • effective-to date
4. Is the legal form valid only at a sub-national level requiring an ISO 3166-2 jurisdiction code?spatial
   Expected answer

   • subdivision code
   • validity scope
   • governing law reference

LEI-CDF categorises entities as BRANCH, GENERAL, FUND, SOLE_PROPRIETOR, RESIDENT_GOVERNMENT_ENTITY or INTERNATIONAL_ORGANIZATION, with government subcategories. Category determines which other findings are even applicable and whether the subject has separate legal personality — a branch and a sole proprietorship do not.

Questions

1. Which entity category and subcategory apply, and which facts of the record does that category make mandatory or inapplicable?classification
   Expected answer

   • entity category code
   • entity subcategory code
   • dependent-field applicability rules
   • category assignment date
2. Does the organization have separate legal personality, and if not, which legal person bears its rights and obligations?authority
   Expected answer

   • legal personality boolean
   • bearing legal person reference
   • governing law reference
3. Is the organization unregistered or informal, such that registration, standing and succession findings do not apply?exception
   Expected answer

   • registration applicability flag
   • informal organization type
   • basis of collective existence
   • evidence of shared name and continuity
4. Is this a government or international-organization subject whose formation rests on statute or treaty rather than registration?authority
   Expected answer

   • public-body indicator
   • statute or treaty citation
   • formedByStatute flag
   • level of government

org:Organization is a collection of people with a common purpose that can act as an agent, including informal communities. org:FormalOrganization is recognized in the world at large, especially in legal jurisdictions, with rights and responsibilities (corporation, charity, government, church). rov:RegisteredOrganization / CBV Legal Entity is a formal organization that gained legal status through a registration process and excludes natural persons, virtual organizations and agents that can act without that registration. Many organizations are not legal entities; some umbrellas contain several legal entities. Unregistered collectives remain in scope of this model as Organization, not as RegisteredOrganization.

Questions

1. Is this subject an informal organization, a formal organization recognized in a jurisdiction, a registered legal entity, or an umbrella that holds several legal entities?classification
   Expected answer

   • record: formality_class (informal-organization | formal-organization | registered-legal-entity | umbrella-of-legal-entities), recognized_in_jurisdiction (boolean), registration_required_for_status (boolean)
2. Can this organization enter contracts and bear legal obligations in its own name, or does another registered entity act for it?authority
   Expected answer

   • record: can_contract (boolean), acts_through_registered_organization_id, relationship_type (has-registered-organization | is-legal-entity-for), jurisdiction_code
3. If the subject is a sole trader or person acting in a business capacity, is the person-as-human modelled elsewhere and only the business capacity kept here?definition
   Expected answer

   • record: is_sole_proprietor (boolean), person_subject_id, business-capacity-only (boolean), home_jurisdiction_treatment

Artifacts

• Formality classification noteAssignment of W3C ORG / RegOrg class with jurisdiction evidence; purely definitional when the subject is an unregistered collective with no register extract.

Each jurisdiction maintains a limited set of recognized company or entity types (Plc, GmbH, SA, LLP and so on). Lexically identical labels can have different legal meanings across borders. RegOrg orgType and CBV legal form type are SKOS/code list specializations of org:classification. ELF is the cross-border alignment, not a replacement for the national register's form code when that register is the master system.

Questions

1. What legal-form code and label does the home register use, and how does it map to ELF?interoperability
   Expected answer

   • record: national_scheme, national_code, national_label, language_tag, mapped_elf_code, mapping_confidence, mapping_source
2. Is legal form intrinsic to the subject (affecting powers and identifiers) so it should be modelled as a typed class, or only a taxonomic label?decision
   Expected answer

   • record: modelling_choice (intrinsic-class | taxonomic-classification), affects_identifier_schemes (boolean), affects_powers (boolean), rationale
3. Which similarly named foreign legal forms must not be treated as equivalent to this form?interoperability
   Expected answer

   • array of records: foreign_jurisdiction, foreign_form_label, foreign_elf_code, equivalence (not-equivalent | similar-not-same), note

Artifacts

• National form register fieldHome-register extract field showing the national legal form as recorded at a stated date.

Activity classification is scheme-bound and revision-bound: NACE Rev. 2.1 applies to European statistics from 2025 under Regulation (EC) No 1893/2006 and Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/137, ISIC Rev. 5 was endorsed in 2023, and national registers use their own lists such as UK SIC. An assignment without its scheme version is not interpretable.

Questions

1. Under which classification scheme and revision was each activity code assigned, and at which hierarchy level?classification
   Expected answer

   • scheme identifier (NACE, ISIC, national)
   • scheme revision
   • code value
   • hierarchy level (section, division, group, class)
2. Which activity is the principal one, and by what criterion was principality determined?classification
   Expected answer

   • primary flag
   • determination criterion (turnover, value added, headcount, self-declaration)
   • measurement reference period
3. Was the code assigned by the organization, by a register or by a statistical authority, and does that change its weight?provenance
   Expected answer

   • assigning party
   • assignment basis (self-declared, registered, statistical)
   • assignment date
   • authority reference
4. How are codes from a superseded revision carried forward, and is the mapping one-to-one?interoperability
   Expected answer

   • prior scheme revision and code
   • correspondence table reference
   • mapping cardinality
   • mapping confidence or ambiguity note

Artifacts

• Activity scheme correspondence tableVersioned crosswalk between activity schemes and revisions (NACE Rev. 2.1 to ISIC Rev. 5, national scheme to NACE, prior revision to current), recording mapping cardinality and ambiguity.

Official registers hold enterprise group, enterprise and local unit as mandatory statistical units alongside legal units and their links, because an enterprise may span several legal units and group boundaries follow control rather than legal personality. Recording this alignment prevents an agent from silently merging legal units into one organization or splitting an organization to match a statistical unit.

Questions

1. Which statistical unit types is this organization mapped to, and by which statistical authority?classification
   Expected answer

   • statistical unit type (legal unit, enterprise, enterprise group, local unit, kind-of-activity unit)
   • statistical register identifier
   • mapping authority
   • mapping reference period
2. Does the mapped enterprise span legal units other than this organization, and which ones?composition
   Expected answer

   • co-member legal unit identifiers
   • span cardinality
   • basis of grouping
3. Where is the group's global decision centre, and does it differ from this organization's jurisdiction?ownership
   Expected answer

   • decision-centre organization reference
   • decision-centre jurisdiction
   • determination basis
4. Where the statistical view and the legal view disagree, which is authoritative for a given consumer?interoperability
   Expected answer

   • conflict description
   • authoritative view per use case
   • resolution rule reference

W3C ORG models purpose as a first-class property and schema.org exposes nonprofitStatus and ownershipFundingInfo. Purpose statements are either constitutive (an object clause in the charter) or self-declared marketing text, and the two carry very different weight; non-profit status is a jurisdiction-granted determination, not a self-description.

Questions

1. Is this purpose statement a constitutive object clause, a governing-body resolution or self-declared communication?provenance
   Expected answer

   • purpose source class
   • charter or resolution reference
   • declaration date
   • asserting agent
2. Which authority granted the non-profit, charitable or public-benefit status, under which instrument, and is it time-limited?authority
   Expected answer

   • status type code
   • granting authority
   • instrument or ruling reference
   • grant date and expiry or review date
3. Does the declared purpose legally restrict what the organization may do, and what is the consequence of acting outside it?constraint
   Expected answer

   • restriction description
   • governing law reference
   • consequence of ultra vires action
4. When was the purpose statement last reviewed or reaffirmed, and does it still match the registered object clause?quality
   Expected answer

   • last review timestamp (RFC 3339)
   • divergence from registered clause flag
   • reviewing agent

Artifacts

• Purpose declaration recordDated capture of a purpose or status declaration with its text, language, source class, granting instrument reference and retrieval metadata.

Size indicators such as headcount are measurements with a method, unit, reference period and source, not static attributes. schema.org exposes numberOfEmployees and statistical registers hold size variables; without a reference period and a counting basis (headcount, full-time equivalent, including or excluding contractors) the figure is not comparable.

Questions

1. On what counting basis and for which reference period is each size figure stated?measurement
   Expected answer

   • counting basis (headcount, FTE, members, volunteers)
   • reference period start and end
   • inclusion and exclusion rules
   • unit of measure
2. Who produced the size figure — the organization, a register, or a third party — and is it audited?provenance
   Expected answer

   • producing party
   • audit or assurance status
   • publication reference
   • retrieval timestamp (RFC 3339)
3. Which size class does the figure place the organization in, under which jurisdiction's thresholds?classification
   Expected answer

   • size class code
   • threshold scheme and version
   • jurisdiction
   • classification date
4. Does the figure cover this organization alone or a consolidated group, and which entities are included?composition
   Expected answer

   • consolidation scope
   • included entity identifiers
   • exclusion notes

LEI-CDF records EntityCreationDate as the legal establishment date, schema.org records foundingDate and foundingLocation, BODS records foundingDate and formedByStatute, and Companies House records date_of_creation. Formation date and first registration date are frequently different and must not be conflated.

Questions

1. On what date did the organization legally come into existence, and is that the same as its first registration date?temporal
   Expected answer

   • creation date
   • first registration date
   • difference explanation
   • date precision
2. Which instrument created the organization — articles, deed, statute, treaty or a founding resolution — and where is it held?provenance
   Expected answer

   • instrument type
   • instrument reference
   • holding authority or custodian
   • access conditions
3. In which jurisdiction and at which location was the organization founded, and does that differ from its current jurisdiction?spatial
   Expected answer

   • founding jurisdiction code
   • founding location
   • current jurisdiction code
   • seat-transfer event reference
4. If no formation date is known or the organization predates its register, how is that recorded without fabricating a date?exception
   Expected answer

   • unknown-date marker
   • earliest evidenced date
   • evidence description
   • confidence note

Artifacts

• Formation evidence extractCaptured evidence of the constitutive act: certificate of incorporation, registration confirmation, statutory instrument citation or founding minutes, with retrieval metadata and a content digest.

An entry links the organization to an authoritative source through a register code plus a local entity number, as in LEI-CDF's RegistrationAuthorityID and RegistrationAuthorityEntityID, drawing on a governed list of more than 1,050 registers across 232 jurisdictions. The EU adds the EUID, which must be ISO 6523 compliant and unequivocally identify companies and branches across interconnected registers.

Questions

1. Which register holds an entry for this organization, and what is its governed register code?authority
   Expected answer

   • register code
   • register international and local name
   • register jurisdiction
   • register website or endpoint
2. What entry or registration number does that register assign, and what is its syntax and check rule?identity
   Expected answer

   • registration number
   • syntax pattern
   • check-character rule
   • entry date
3. How many registers hold entries for this organization, and which is authoritative for which fact?authority
   Expected answer

   • list of register entries
   • fact-to-register authority map
   • precedence rule
   • conflict handling note
4. Does the entry describe a branch or a foreign company rather than a domestically constituted organization?classification
   Expected answer

   • branch indicator
   • parent company registration reference
   • parent jurisdiction
   • foreign company details

Artifacts

• Registry extractA point-in-time extract of the organization's entry in a named register, retained with register code, extract timestamp, requesting agent, licence terms and a content digest.

LEI-CDF LegalJurisdiction is the jurisdiction of legal formation and registration and is the jurisdiction on which LegalForm depends. It is an ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code or an ISO 3166-2 region code, uppercase. French overseas territories sharing French legal forms are treated as France for legal jurisdiction in the ELF list implementation. Home jurisdiction is not necessarily the headquarters country or the tax residence.

Questions

1. What is the jurisdiction of legal formation and registration, at country or regional grain?spatial
   Expected answer

   • record: jurisdiction_code (ISO 3166-1-alpha-2 or ISO 3166-2), grain (country | region), legal_form_depends_on_this (boolean)
2. How does the legal jurisdiction differ from headquarters country, tax residence and principal place of business?spatial
   Expected answer

   • record: legal_jurisdiction, headquarters_country, tax_residence_if_known, principal_place_of_business, divergence_notes
3. If the country has multiple regional registers (for example Germany or Spain), which regional register and 3166-2 code is home?spatial
   Expected answer

   • record: country_code, region_code, register_id, racl_code, notes

Artifacts

• Jurisdiction determination noteEvidence from ELF legal form, register, or LEI record that determines LegalJurisdiction.

LEI-CDF keeps EntityStatus (ACTIVE, INACTIVE, NULL — whether the entity is legally registered and operating) strictly separate from RegistrationStatus (PENDING_VALIDATION, ISSUED, DUPLICATE, LAPSED, RETIRED, ANNULLED, CANCELLED, TRANSFERRED, PENDING_TRANSFER, PENDING_ARCHIVAL — the standing of the record). Companies House adds a twelve-value national enumeration plus company_status_detail. Collapsing these into one status field destroys answerability.

Questions

1. Is the organization itself currently in existence and operating, and on what date was that last established?state
   Expected answer

   • entity status value
   • status effective date
   • status observation timestamp (RFC 3339)
   • establishing source
2. What is the standing of each record about the organization, separately from the organization's own status?state
   Expected answer

   • record registration status value
   • status scheme and enumeration
   • next action or renewal date
   • managing record issuer
3. Where a status is qualified (for example administration, liquidation or struck-off pending), what is the qualifying detail and the governing procedure?state
   Expected answer

   • status detail value
   • governing procedure or process reference
   • appointed office-holder reference
   • procedure start date
4. How does a national status value map onto the model's normalised status, and what is lost in the mapping?interoperability
   Expected answer

   • source status value and scheme
   • normalised status value
   • mapping loss note
   • mapping table version

Artifacts

• Status observation recordDated observation of a status value from a named source, carrying both the effective date asserted by the source and the observation timestamp, so that stale and conflicting statuses remain distinguishable.

Standing is maintained by periodic acts: LEI records carry NextRenewalDate and lapse if not renewed, and national registers require confirmation statements and accounts with their own due dates. Missing a due date changes record standing without changing the organization's existence.

Questions

1. Which recurring obligations apply to this organization, under which instrument, and at what frequency?requirement
   Expected answer

   • obligation type
   • governing instrument reference
   • frequency
   • responsible authority
2. What is the next due date for each obligation, and what is the consequence of missing it?temporal
   Expected answer

   • next due date
   • grace period
   • consequence code (lapse, strike-off, penalty)
   • last fulfilment date
3. What evidence shows an obligation was fulfilled, and where is that evidence retrievable?evidence
   Expected answer

   • filing reference
   • filing date
   • filing document reference
   • retrieval endpoint or custodian
4. Is the organization exempt from an otherwise applicable obligation, and on what recorded basis?exception
   Expected answer

   • exemption type
   • exemption basis and instrument
   • exemption validity period
   • approving authority

Artifacts

• Obligation scheduleDerived but persisted schedule of applicable obligations with authority, frequency, due dates, grace periods, fulfilment references and consequence codes, used to drive monitoring.

LEI-CDF v3.1 introduced LegalEntityEvents as a container carrying event type, dates, validation documents and the fields affected. W3C ORG models ChangeEvent linked by changedBy and resultedFrom. An event record must separate the date the event legally took effect from the date it was recorded and the date it was observed.

Questions

1. What type of lifecycle event occurred, and which fields of the organization record does it affect?event
   Expected answer

   • event type code
   • affected field list
   • event scheme and version
   • narrative description
2. What are the event's effective date, its recorded date at the authority, and the observation time in this system?temporal
   Expected answer

   • effective date
   • authority recording date
   • observation timestamp (RFC 3339 with offset)
   • time-zone or offset source
3. Which validation documents evidence the event, and who validated them?evidence
   Expected answer

   • validation document references
   • validating agent or authority
   • validation outcome
   • validation timestamp
4. Is the event completed, in progress or withdrawn, and can it be superseded by a later correction?state
   Expected answer

   • event status code
   • supersession reference
   • correction reason
   • corrected-at timestamp

Artifacts

• Lifecycle event journalAppend-only journal of lifecycle events with type, three distinct timestamps, affected fields, validation document references, asserting agent and supersession links.

W3C ORG treats an organization resulting from a change event as sufficiently distinct to have its own identity, linked to originalOrganization; LEI-CDF carries SuccessorEntity with SuccessorLEI or SuccessorEntityName; Eurostat register practice defines continuity rules for unit births and deaths. The hard question is when a change preserves identity and when it creates a new subject.

Questions

1. Did this change preserve the organization's identity, or did it terminate one subject and create another?identity
   Expected answer

   • continuity decision
   • continuity rule applied
   • rule source reference
   • deciding agent and timestamp
2. Which organizations are predecessors and which are successors, and what is the cardinality of the transition?relationship
   Expected answer

   • predecessor identifiers
   • successor identifiers
   • transition cardinality (merge, split, absorption, conversion)
   • effective date
3. If a successor exists but has no identifier, how is it recorded without inventing one?exception
   Expected answer

   • successor name string
   • identifier-absent marker
   • expected identifier scheme
   • follow-up review date
4. Which identifiers, registrations, obligations and relationships transfer to the successor and which lapse?constraint
   Expected answer

   • carried-over identifier list
   • lapsed identifier list
   • transferred obligation list
   • legal basis for transfer

Artifacts

• Lineage graph recordPersisted predecessor/successor edge set with transition cardinality, effective dates, continuity decisions and the rule versions applied, enabling a lineage view without recomputation.

An organization ceases as a subject by dissolution, completion of winding-up, or replacement through corporate action. schema.org dissolutionDate is a secondary discovery field. LEI RETIRED means the entity ceased without merger; INACTIVE covers closure, acquisition or illegitimacy. Identifier records are not reused. History remains queryable after cessation. Deletion of the subject record is a retention decision, not an automatic consequence of dissolution.

Questions

1. Has the organization ceased, on what effective datetime, under which reason, and is winding-up still in progress?lifecycle
   Expected answer

   • record: ceased (boolean), dissolution_datetime, reason (dissolved | merged | illegitimate | other), winding_up_in_progress (boolean), evidence_ref
2. Which identifiers remain the correct historical keys after cessation, and which must not be reassigned or reused for a new entity?identity
   Expected answer

   • array of records: scheme_id, notation, reusable (false), surviving_search_key (boolean), successor_identifier_if_any
3. How long must the dissolved organization's identity and lineage remain available for resolution and audit, and who is the residual steward?retention
   Expected answer

   • record: retain_until, retain_indefinitely (boolean), residual_steward_id, legal_hold (boolean), deletion_eligible_from

Artifacts

• Dissolution or striking-off instrumentOfficial notice, court order or register marking that the entity ceased, including reason and effective date.

RR-CDF records IS_DIRECTLY_CONSOLIDATED_BY, IS_ULTIMATELY_CONSOLIDATED_BY, IS_INTERNATIONAL_BRANCH_OF, IS_FUND-MANAGED_BY, IS_SUBFUND_OF and IS_FEEDER_TO, each with up to three distinct period types, a status, quantifiers with a measurement method, and eight exception reasons for when a parent cannot be reported.

Questions

1. Which relationship type connects this organization to the other party, and in which direction?relationship
   Expected answer

   • relationship type code
   • start node identifier and type
   • end node identifier and type
   • direction semantics
2. Which distinct periods apply — relationship validity, accounting period and document filing period — and do they differ?temporal
   Expected answer

   • relationship period start and end
   • accounting period start and end
   • document filing period start and end
   • period type codes
3. What quantified measure describes the relationship, and by which measurement method and unit?measurement
   Expected answer

   • quantifier amount
   • measurement method
   • quantifier units
   • measurement date
4. If no parent can be reported, which exception reason applies and when will it be reviewed?exception
   Expected answer

   • exception reason code
   • exception category
   • exception recorded date
   • review-after date

Artifacts

• Organization relationship recordA standalone relationship record carrying both endpoints, type, typed periods, status, quantifiers, validation sources and documents, and its own registration metadata — modelled separately from either endpoint's record.

BODS models ownership and control as relationship records with a subject entity, an interested party, and an array of interests each carrying type, directOrIndirect, a beneficialOwnershipOrControl flag valid only for natural persons, share values expressible as exact figures or as minimum/maximum ranges, and start and end dates. Indirect chains are represented through component records rather than collapsed edges.

Questions

1. What type of interest does the interested party hold, in what amount or range, and is it held directly or indirectly?relationship
   Expected answer

   • interest type code
   • direct/indirect/unknown value
   • share exact value or minimum and maximum bounds
   • interest start and end dates
2. Is this interest asserted as beneficial ownership or control by a natural person, and under which jurisdiction's threshold?classification
   Expected answer

   • beneficial ownership flag
   • natural person record reference
   • applicable threshold and jurisdiction
   • threshold instrument reference
3. Where the interested party is unknown or unspecified, what reason is recorded and what is the follow-up?exception
   Expected answer

   • unspecified reason code
   • reason description
   • expected resolution route
   • review-after date
4. For an indirect interest, which component records describe each step of the ownership chain?composition
   Expected answer

   • component record identifiers
   • chain order
   • per-step interest types
   • chain completeness flag
5. Who asserted this ownership statement, on what date, from which source type, and under what licence is it published?provenance
   Expected answer

   • asserting party
   • statement date (RFC 3339 or full date)
   • source type (self-declaration, official register, third party, verified)
   • publication licence URI

Artifacts

• Ownership statement setA published set of ownership and control statements about the organization, carrying publication details (publication date, standard version, licence, publisher) and per-statement source metadata including retrieval time and asserting party.

ISO 5009 codes cover over 2,000 official roles across almost 250 legal forms in 89 jurisdictions, are tied to the relevant ELF code, include only roles appearing in local legislation, and explicitly exclude internal functional titles such as Chief Risk Officer. W3C ORG separates Role, Post and Membership. This finding covers the organization-side view: which posts exist and what they authorise, not the persons filling them.

Questions

1. Which official organizational roles exist for this organization's legal form, and what are their governed codes?authority
   Expected answer

   • official role code
   • role local-language name
   • associated ELF code
   • jurisdiction
2. What may a holder of each role bind the organization to, and are there joint-signature or threshold constraints?authority
   Expected answer

   • representation power description
   • joint or sole signing rule
   • monetary or subject-matter limits
   • governing instrument reference
3. Is the appointment currently in force, and what are its start and end dates as recorded by the authority?temporal
   Expected answer

   • appointment start date
   • appointment end date
   • current-in-force flag
   • recording authority
4. Is a claimed title an official role under local legislation or an internal functional title with no statutory effect?classification
   Expected answer

   • official-vs-internal determination
   • code list lookup result
   • evidence reference
   • determination timestamp

Artifacts

• Representation authority recordRecord of who may represent the organization, linking an official role code, the appointed party reference held in the person model, the authorising instrument and the appointment interval, with personal data minimised to a reference.

Organizations belong to federations, chambers, standards bodies and networks, and hold accreditations or certifications granted by external bodies. W3C ORG models Membership as an n-ary relation between agent, organization and role; schema.org exposes memberOf and hasCredential. These links are neither ownership nor control and must not be conflated with them.

Questions

1. Which external body is the organization affiliated with or accredited by, and what is that body's own identifier?relationship
   Expected answer

   • affiliating body identifier and scheme
   • affiliation or accreditation type
   • relationship direction
   • jurisdictional scope
2. What rights, obligations or claims does the affiliation confer, and is it publicly verifiable?authority
   Expected answer

   • conferred rights and obligations
   • public verification endpoint
   • claim wording permitted
   • verification method
3. Over which period is the affiliation or accreditation valid, and what triggers its lapse or withdrawal?temporal
   Expected answer

   • validity start and end dates
   • renewal requirement
   • lapse or withdrawal triggers
   • last verification timestamp
4. Is this link genuinely non-controlling, or does it in substance confer control that belongs in the ownership layer?constraint
   Expected answer

   • control assessment outcome
   • assessment criteria applied
   • reclassification decision
   • deciding agent

The registered office is the address at which the organization is legally addressable in its jurisdiction of formation; it is frequently not an operating location and may be a service-provider address. National registers record when it is in dispute or undeliverable, which are distinct states from being absent.

Questions

1. Which address is the registered or legal address, as distinct from the headquarters and other addresses?spatial
   Expected answer

   • address role code
   • structured address components
   • country and subdivision codes
   • source register reference
2. Is the registered address disputed, undeliverable or served by a third-party provider, and since when?state
   Expected answer

   • dispute flag
   • undeliverable flag
   • service-provider indicator
   • state effective date
3. When did the registered address last change, and which lifecycle event and filing recorded the change?lifecycle
   Expected answer

   • prior address
   • change effective date
   • lifecycle event reference
   • filing reference
4. In which language and script is the address authoritative, and is a transliterated form required for interchange?interoperability
   Expected answer

   • address language tag
   • script code
   • transliterated address form
   • transliteration source

W3C ORG models Site as a place where an organization operates and separates hasSite from hasRegisteredSite. Operating presence is distinct from legal seat: a branch may be separately registered and separately identified, while a site may be purely operational with no registry footprint at all.

Questions

1. What kind of presence is this — registered branch, operating site, local unit or service point — and is it separately registered?classification
   Expected answer

   • site kind code
   • separate registration flag
   • branch registration reference
   • statistical local-unit reference
2. Over which period was the site active, and what evidences its opening and closing?temporal
   Expected answer

   • site active-from and active-to dates
   • opening evidence reference
   • closing evidence reference
   • observation timestamp
3. Which geographic areas does the organization serve from this site, and at what granularity is that recorded?spatial
   Expected answer

   • served area identifiers
   • granularity level
   • area code scheme
   • exclusions
4. Which place or facility record does this site resolve to, and who maintains that record?interoperability
   Expected answer

   • place model reference
   • maintaining party
   • resolution endpoint
   • last reconciliation timestamp

Artifacts

• Organization site registerMaintained list of the organization's sites and branches with kind, place reference, separate-registration status, validity interval and evidence references.

Electronic business addressing uses the same scheme-qualified pattern as identity: a Peppol participant is addressed as an ISO 6523 scheme designator plus a value, for example 0199 with an LEI or 0208 with a Belgian enterprise number. Public channels such as websites and published contact points are separate, weaker assertions that require their own verification.

Questions

1. Under which electronic addressing scheme is the organization reachable, and what is the scheme-qualified address?interoperability
   Expected answer

   • electronic address scheme designator
   • address value
   • network or protocol
   • registration status in that network
2. How was each channel verified as belonging to this organization, and when?validation
   Expected answer

   • verification method
   • verifying agent
   • verification timestamp (RFC 3339)
   • verification outcome
3. What is each channel authorised for — legal service, invoicing, general enquiry or public communication?authority
   Expected answer

   • channel purpose code
   • authorising instrument or policy
   • legal-service validity flag
   • restriction notes
4. Which channels are retired, and are prior references redirected or tombstoned?lifecycle
   Expected answer

   • retired channel value
   • retirement date
   • replacement channel
   • redirect or tombstone policy

Every field value is an assertion by some agent from some source at some time. PROV-O supplies wasAttributedTo, wasDerivedFrom, wasGeneratedBy and actedOnBehalfOf with prov:Organization as an agent type; BODS requires source type, url, retrievedAt and assertedBy on each statement. Event time and observation time must be recorded separately.

Questions

1. From which source was each assertion derived, of what source type, and under what licence may it be reused?provenance
   Expected answer

   • source identifier and URL
   • source type (official register, self-declaration, third party, verified)
   • licence URI
   • retrieval timestamp (RFC 3339 with offset)
2. Which agent asserted the value, and on whose behalf were they acting?ownership
   Expected answer

   • asserting agent identifier
   • agent type (person, organization, software)
   • delegating party
   • assertion timestamp
3. Was the value copied, transformed or inferred, and from which prior version was it derived?provenance
   Expected answer

   • derivation type (copy, revision, transformation, inference)
   • prior version reference
   • transforming activity reference
   • transformation rule version
4. Are event time and observation/ingestion time recorded separately for this assertion, and with what precision?temporal
   Expected answer

   • event time (RFC 3339)
   • observation time (RFC 3339)
   • precision indicator
   • clock or offset source

Artifacts

• Record provenance graphGraph of entities, activities and agents describing how each version of the organization record was generated, derived and attributed, using qualified provenance where circumstances matter.

LEI-CDF grades a record's corroboration as PENDING, ENTITY_SUPPLIED_ONLY, PARTIALLY_CORROBORATED or FULLY_CORROBORATED against a named ValidationAuthority, and RR-CDF carries validation sources, documents and references. Companies House marks partial_data_available and exposes an entity tag for concurrency. Quality is therefore a declared, evidenced grade rather than an assumed property.

Questions

1. What corroboration level applies to this record, and against which validation authority and documents was it established?validation
   Expected answer

   • corroboration level value
   • validation authority reference
   • validation document references
   • validation date
2. How stale is each value relative to its source's own update cadence, and when must it be refreshed?quality
   Expected answer

   • last update timestamp
   • source update cadence
   • staleness threshold
   • next refresh date
3. Which required fields are absent or only partially available, and is that a source limitation or an ingestion gap?quality
   Expected answer

   • missing field list
   • partial-data indicator
   • cause classification
   • remediation owner
4. What version or entity tag did the source return, and how are lost updates prevented on write-back?validation
   Expected answer

   • source version tag
   • local record version
   • concurrency strategy
   • conflict outcome

Artifacts

• Data quality assessmentPeriodic assessment of the organization record against declared quality criteria, recording corroboration level, completeness, staleness, detected conflicts and remediation actions with owners and due dates.

Organization records mix data that registers publish freely, data that is licensed, and data that identifies natural persons and therefore carries privacy obligations. BODS requires an explicit licence on publication; national registers operate protected-address and secure-officer regimes; and retention must be decided per class rather than for the record as a whole.

Questions

1. What disclosure class does each field group carry — publicly disclosed, licensed, restricted or personal-data-bearing?privacy
   Expected answer

   • disclosure class code
   • field group scope
   • basis for the classification
   • classification review date
2. Under which licence was source data obtained, and does that licence permit redistribution in the intended projection?access
   Expected answer

   • source licence URI
   • redistribution permission
   • attribution requirement
   • derived-work constraints
3. Which fields identify natural persons, and what minimisation is applied before the record is shared?privacy
   Expected answer

   • personal-data field list
   • minimisation rule applied
   • lawful basis reference
   • suppression or protected-address flags
4. How long is each class retained, what triggers deletion or archival, and what survives as a tombstone?retention
   Expected answer

   • retention period per class
   • retention trigger event
   • deletion or archival action
   • tombstone content and rationale
5. How can the organization or a data subject request correction or erasure, and how is the outcome evidenced?exception
   Expected answer

   • request channel
   • assessment criteria
   • decision and rationale
   • evidence of action and timestamp

Artifacts

• Disclosure and retention policy recordVersioned policy mapping each field group of the organization record to a disclosure class, licence constraint, minimisation rule, retention period, deletion trigger and tombstone specification.

The organization itself, acting through officers, is the steward of its own subject record. Registers hold registrar-stewarded copies. GLEIF ManagingLOU administers the LEI record. CBV legal representatives (via schema.org and related discovery) are not the same as employment posts. This layer records stewardship of data, not corporate governance of people.

Questions

1. Who is the steward of this Dimension's organization record, in which role, and through which officer or system account?ownership
   Expected answer

   • record: steward_organization_id, steward_role, officer_or_account_id, authority_basis, valid_from, valid_to
2. Which registrars steward authoritative copies, and which copy is master for which field group?provenance
   Expected answer

   • array of records: registrar_id, copy_kind (home-register | lei | tax | dimension), master_for_fields[], last_aligned_at
3. Who is authorized to create, update or request deletion of identity fields, and under what evidence standard?authority
   Expected answer

   • array of records: agent_id, role, permitted_actions[], evidence_standard, access_exception

Artifacts

• Stewardship assignmentAssignment of record stewardship and registrar-copy roles, pointing at S1/S2 grant records rather than duplicating them.

External standards are alignments, not conformance claims. W3C ORG, schema.org, LEI-CDF, NACE and ISIC each cover overlapping but non-identical ground, and national registers legitimately disagree with global ones about name, status and address. Divergence must be recorded as an observation with sources, not silently resolved.

Questions

1. To which external standard, version and element does each model element map, and is the mapping exact, broader, narrower or partial?interoperability
   Expected answer

   • target standard and version
   • target element identifier
   • mapping relation type
   • known semantic loss
2. Is a conformance claim being made, and if so what evidence supports it, or is this alignment only?evidence
   Expected answer

   • claim type (alignment or conformance)
   • supporting test or certification evidence
   • claim scope
   • claim review date
3. Where two sources assert different values for the same fact, what is recorded and which source prevails for which consumer?validation
   Expected answer

   • conflicting values with source references
   • precedence rule applied
   • consumer-specific resolution
   • conflict observation timestamp
4. Which projections are published from this model, and which fields does each deliberately omit?access
   Expected answer

   • projection name
   • included field set
   • omitted field set and rationale
   • projection consumer audience

Artifacts

• Alignment and conflict registerVersioned register of external-standard mappings with relation types and declared losses, together with an append-only log of observed inter-source conflicts, precedence decisions and their rationale.