Thing

• Thing is an abstract schema and is used for inheritance only and shouldn’t be used directly.

Relations to other schemata

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

Relation	Schemata
Properties inherited from:	-
More precise schemata:	Document Article Message Vehicle Person Company Organization Position Airplane Project Audio Video BankAccount Note CourtCase Package CryptoWallet Image Pages PublicBody CallForTenders Trip RealEstate UserAccount Email LegalEntity Address Asset Folder Security Contract Table Vessel HyperText Event Workbook PlainText License

Thing 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
Thing:name	Name The primary name of the entity	name
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
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:summary	Summary A short one-liner description; see also description, notes	text
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
Thing:risks	Risks	entity
Thing:documentedBy	Documents	entity
Thing:courtCase	Court cases	entity
Thing:noteEntities	Notes	entity
Thing:unknownLinkTo	Linked to	entity
Thing:unknownLinkFrom	Linked from	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	-