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state-owned enterprise

legal entity controlled by a government to undertake commercial activities
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Summary

state-owned enterprise is an economic term[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of economic term entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (7,685 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: legal form[3]
  • Owned by: state[4]
  • Subclass of: publicly owned company[5], public enterprise[6], government organization[7]
  • Part of: state property[8]
  • Commons category: Government-owned companies[9]
  • Opposite of: private corporation[10]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Government-owned companies[11]
  • Partially coincident with: public enterprise[12]
  • Properties for this type: P127[13], P1454[14]
  • Maintained by WikiProject: Govdirectory[15]
  • P14968: Virginia[16]

Why It Matters

state-owned enterprise has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17] It is known by 111 alternative names across languages and contexts.[18]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [18] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

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. 2d ago · Sadads · 2026-10-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14968 → Virginia
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ P14968: Q1370, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/291586|batch #291586]]"
  2. 12d ago · RVA2869 · 2026-10-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'az', 'bg', 'da', 'en', 'eo', 'es', 'et', 'fa', 'fi', 'fr', 'he', 'hi', '
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-references:1||1|1 */ Babelnet id: 01317732n, Cleanup: remove self_stated_in refs ([[User:Difool/WikidataCleanup]])"
  3. 5w ago · Ksn.kenny · 2026-09-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → corporations-government
    National library of spain spmabn id (bne v1.0) → XX525498
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ National library of spain spmabn id (bne v1.0): XX525498"
  4. 16w ago · Mitte27 · 2026-06-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → publicly owned company, public enterprise, government organization
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Subclass of: government organization"
  5. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0442260-podniky-se-statni-ucasti, h0000742-statni-podniky
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0442260-podniky-se-statni-ucasti, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259547|batch #259547]]"
  6. 22w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Owned by → state
    Owned by → —
    Maintained by wikiproject → Govdirectory
    Subclass of → publicly owned company, public enterprise, government organization
    + 10 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|11 */ Yso id: 19538, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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