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 UserAccount Email Project Position Video Contract Vehicle Workbook CourtCase Asset Address Person Event Vessel Message Note LegalEntity Trip PublicBody License Audio CryptoWallet HyperText Security Folder CallForTenders RealEstate Package PlainText Pages Company Airplane Organization Image Table BankAccount

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	name
Thing:country	Country	country
Thing:summary	Summary	text
Thing:description	Description	text
Thing:alias	Alias	name
Thing:previousName	Previous name	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:sourceUrl	Source link	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	string
Thing:topics	Topics	topic
Thing:address	Address	address
Thing:addressEntity	Address	entity
Thing:program	Program Regulatory program or sanctions list on which an entity is listed.	string
Thing:programId	Program ID	identifier
Thing:notes	Notes	text
Thing:proof	Source document	entity
Thing:indexText	Index text	text
Thing:createdAt	Created at	date
Thing:modifiedAt	Modified on	date
Thing:retrievedAt	Retrieved on	date
Thing:sanctions	Sanctions	entity
Thing:documentedBy	Documents	entity
Thing:unknownLinkTo	Linked to	entity
Thing:unknownLinkFrom	Linked from	entity
Thing:risks	Risks	entity
Thing:noteEntities	Notes	entity
Thing:candidateSimilars	Similar to this	entity
Thing:matchSimilars	Similar as this	entity
Thing:courtCase	Court cases	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	-