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Address

A location associated with an entity.
  • Address is a matchable schema and can be used for matching and cross-referencing.

Relations to other schemata

Address has the following relations to other schemata in the model:

Relation Schemata
Properties inherited from: Thing
More precise schemata: -

Address has multiple properties to describe its data. Some properties are inherited from its parent schemata.

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This property is used to compute a caption for the entity.

This property is a featured property, which means in UI applications it should be shown with higher information hierarchy.

This property is a matchable property and can be used in matching systems to find similar entities.

This property is a hidden property and should not be rendered in UI applications.

Name Label Type
Address:full Full address address
Thing:summary Summary
A short one-liner description; see also description, notes
text
Address:city City
City, town, village or other locality
string
Address:remarks Remarks
Handling instructions, like 'care of'
string
Address:street Street address string
Thing:country Country
An association between the entity and a country that is not covered by a more specific property (e.g. jurisdiction, birthCountry, mainCountry)
country
Address:postOfficeBox PO Box
A mailbox identifier at the post office
string
Address:street2 Street address (ctd.) string
Address:postalCode Postal code
Zip code or postcode
string
Address:region Region
Also province or area
string
Address:state State
State or federal unit
string
Address:latitude Latitude number
Address:longitude Longitude number
Address:osmId OpenStreetmap Place ID identifier
Address:googlePlaceId Google Places ID identifier
Address:things Located there entity
Thing:name Name
The primary name of the entity
name
Thing:alias Alias
An alternative or secondary name
name
Thing:previousName Previous name
A former name of the entity
name
Thing:weakAlias Weak alias
A relatively broad or generic alias that should not be used for matching in screening systems. It may still may be useful for identification purposes, particularly in confirming a possible match triggered by other identifier information.
name
Thing:notes Notes
Narrative description of the entity; see also description, summary
text
Thing:description Description
A longer description; see also notes, summary
text
Thing:sourceUrl Source link
A deep link to a source website for the profile
url
Thing:publisher Publishing source string
Thing:publisherUrl Publishing source URL url
Thing:alephUrl Aleph URL url
Thing:wikipediaUrl Wikipedia Article url
Thing:wikidataId Wikidata ID identifier
Thing:keywords Keywords
Plain text keywords provided for the entity; prefer more specific type, status, etc. as appropriate
string
Thing:topics Topics
Controlled tags used to qualify the entity and associate it with a risk category
topic
Thing:address Address
A textual description of an address linked to the entity
address
Thing:addressEntity Address
A reference to an Address entity with structured place information
entity
Thing:program Program
Regulatory program or sanctions list on which an entity is listed
string
Thing:programId Program ID identifier
Thing:proof Source document entity
Thing:indexText Index text text
Thing:createdAt Created at
The date on which the entity was created, not to be confused with an internal 'first saved'-style metadata field
date
Thing:modifiedAt Modified on
The date on which the entity was modified, not to be confused with an internal 'last updated'-style metadata field
date
Thing:retrievedAt Retrieved on
Retrieval date generated by a data gathering system, not to be confused with an internal 'first found'-style metadata field
date
Thing:sanctions Sanctions entity
Thing:candidateSimilars Similar to this entity
Thing:matchSimilars Similar as this entity
Address:tripsDeparting Trips departing entity
Address:tripsIncoming Trips incoming entity
Thing:noteEntities Notes entity
Thing:unknownLinkFrom Linked from entity
Thing:documentedBy Documents entity
Thing:risks Risks entity
Thing:courtCase Court cases entity
Thing:unknownLinkTo Linked to entity

How to use it in a graph or timeline

FtM has well-defined semantics for different representations of entities, for example in a network graph or in a timeline.

When using this schema in a graph representation, it should be represented as a node.

Semantic Property
Temporal start -
Temporal end -