Topics
Topics are descriptive qualifiers for entities. They can be used to say things like this Company
is a bank, or this Person
is a politician, or this Position
is a political office on a sub-national level of government.
Some topics imply a risk association of an entity (eg. sanction
, wanted
, crime.war
), while others act as a purely descriptive taxonomy of the business and geopolitical world.
Besides the informative value, topics are ultimately supposed to bear fruits in the context of graph-based data analysis, where they would enable queries such as find all paths between a government procurement award and a politician.
Attribute | Value | Detail |
---|---|---|
name | topic |
Used in schema definitions |
label | Topic | plural: Topics |
group | topics |
Used in search indexing to query all properties of a given type |
matchable | Suitable for use in entity matching | |
pivot | Suitable for use as a pivot point for connecting to other entities |
Data reference
Code | Label |
---|---|
crime |
Crime |
crime.fraud |
Fraud |
crime.cyber |
Cybercrime |
crime.fin |
Financial crime |
crime.env |
Environmental violations |
crime.theft |
Theft |
crime.war |
War crimes |
crime.boss |
Criminal leadership |
crime.terror |
Terrorism |
crime.traffick |
Trafficking |
crime.traffick.drug |
Drug trafficking |
crime.traffick.human |
Human trafficking |
forced.labor |
Forced labor |
asset.frozen |
Frozen asset |
wanted |
Wanted |
corp.offshore |
Offshore |
corp.shell |
Shell company |
corp.public |
Public listed company |
corp.disqual |
Disqualified |
gov |
Government |
gov.national |
National government |
gov.state |
State government |
gov.muni |
Municipal government |
gov.soe |
State-owned enterprise |
gov.igo |
Intergovernmental organization |
gov.head |
Head of government or state |
gov.admin |
Civil service |
gov.executive |
Executive branch of government |
gov.legislative |
Legislative branch of government |
gov.judicial |
Judicial branch of government |
gov.security |
Security services |
gov.financial |
Central banking and financial integrity |
fin |
Financial services |
fin.bank |
Bank |
fin.fund |
Fund |
fin.adivsor |
Financial advisor |
reg.action |
Regulator action |
reg.warn |
Regulator warning |
role.pep |
Politician |
role.pol |
Non-PEP |
role.rca |
Close Associate |
role.judge |
Judge |
role.civil |
Civil servant |
role.diplo |
Diplomat |
role.lawyer |
Lawyer |
role.acct |
Accountant |
role.spy |
Spy |
role.oligarch |
Oligarch |
role.journo |
Journalist |
role.act |
Activist |
role.lobby |
Lobbyist |
pol.party |
Political party |
pol.union |
Union |
rel |
Religion |
mil |
Military |
sanction |
Sanctioned entity |
sanction.linked |
Sanction-linked entity |
sanction.counter |
Counter-sanctioned entity |
export.control |
Export controlled |
export.risk |
Trade risk |
debarment |
Debarred entity |
poi |
Person of interest |
followthemoney.types.TopicType
Bases: EnumType
Topics define a controlled vocabulary of terms applicable to some entities, such as companies and people. They describe categories of journalistic interest which may apply to the given entity, for example if a given person is a criminal or a politician.
Besides the informative value, topics are ultimately supposed to bear fruits in the context of graph-based data analysis, where they would enable queries such as find all paths between a government procurement award and a politician.