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independent contractor

natural person, business, or corporation that provides goods or services to another entity under a contract or verbal agreement.
Class type of: employment Q42417097

Facts

3 properties
Instance of
social role
Subclass of
employment
Facet of
respondeat superior[3]
🏷️ Also known as
en contractor en independent contractor ja 独立業務請負人 zh 獨立合同人
🔖 Identifiers · 5
Library of Congress Authorities ID
sh85064847
Freebase ID
/m/03cd5b
J9U entity ID
987007543295105171
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
2780648417
Yale LUX ID
concept/441c2e57-fa0b-453c-8372-cc80c2e44742

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Summary

independent contractor is a role[1]. It is a type of employment[2].

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  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . law.cornell.edu.. law.cornell.edu.. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 23w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-31 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → employment
    Instance of → social role
    J9U entity ID → 987007543295105171
    Yale LUX ID → concept/441c2e57-fa0b-453c-8372-cc80c2e44742
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Changed claim qualifiers: J9U entity ID: 987007543295105171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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