company

legal entity representing an association of people, whether natural, legal or a mixture of both, with a specific objective
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company

Summary

company is a type of organization[1]. company ranks in the top 1% of type_of_organization entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,560 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • company's instance of is recorded as type of organization[3].
  • company's instance of is recorded as legal form[4].
  • company is a type of legal person[5].
  • company is a type of organization[6].
  • company's Commons category is recorded as Companies[7].
  • company's said to be the same as is recorded as business[8].
  • company comprises department[9].
  • company's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Companies[10].
  • company's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[11].
  • company's described by source is recorded as Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[12].
  • company's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13].
  • company's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[14].
  • company's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[15].
  • company's partially coincident with is recorded as commercial company[16].
  • company's topic has template is recorded as Template:Infobox company[17].
  • company's NCI Thesaurus ID is recorded as C54131[18].
  • company's different from is recorded as business activity[19].
  • company's different from is recorded as business[20].
  • company's different from is recorded as enterprise[21].
  • company's properties for this type is recorded as P452[22].
  • company's ACM Classification Code is recorded as 10011152[23].
  • company's studied by is recorded as economics[24].
  • company's studied by is recorded as business studies[25].
  • company's studied by is recorded as interaction science[26].
  • company's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[27].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded instance of include type of organization[3] and legal form[4]. Recorded subclass of include legal person[5] and organization[6].

Use and Application

company comprises department[9].

Influence

Things named for company include Egger & Co[28], a software company[29], in United States[30], founded in 2024[31], headquartered in Delaware[32] and hetaerolite[33], a mineral species[34].

Why It Matters

company ranks in the top 1% of type_of_organization entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,560 views/month).[2] company has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[35] company is known by 32 alternative names across languages and contexts.[36]

Entities named for company include Egger & Co[28], a software company[29], in United States[30], founded in 2024[31], headquartered in Delaware[32] and hetaerolite[33], a mineral species[34].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . realbusiness.co.uk. realbusiness.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [33] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [34] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [35] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [36] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 10h ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Said to be the same as business
    Studied by economics, business studies, interaction science
    Has parts
    On focus list of wikimedia project Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
    + 13 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 7393, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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