Legal Entity
An entity which U.S. law recognizes as having an identity and rights. Legal entities can be either natural persons or registered entities such as businesses and governmental bodies.
A legal entity may be associated with one or more registered entities (the legal entities that are registered with individual states), and may do business under one or more brands. Legal entities may also file taxes using a TIN, hold roles at other businesses, and appear on government watchlists.
GraphQL type: LegalEntity
Starbucks Corporation is a legal entity — the registered corporate structure that owns the Starbucks brand and in which shareholders own equity.
Bankruptcy
Description
The details of the bankruptcy filing (chapter_type, filing date and case number etc.) a legal entity has ever filed. All bankruptcy cases are handled in federal courts under rules outlined in the U.S. Bankruptcy Code.
Pricing tier: Premium
| Field | Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debtor Name | debtor_name | string | The debtor's name on the filing. |
| Trustee | trustee | string | The trustee on the filing. |
| Judge | judge | string | Name of the bankruptcy court judge presiding over the case. |
| Filing Date | filing_date | date | The date the bankruptcy was filed. |
| Chapter Type | chapter_type | string | Bankruptcy petition type, i.e, reorgainzation for 11, liqidation for 7, etc. |
| Case Number | case_number | string | The full US District Court docket number for bankruptcy case. |
| Petition | petition | string | Nature of petition, i.e, "voluntary" or "involuntary". |
| Entry Date | entry_date | date | Date when the case was entered. |
| Date Converted | date_converted | date | Date when the case was converted from chapter 11 to chapter 7. |
| Date Dismissed | date_dismissed | date | Date when the case was dismissed from court. |
| Date Terminated | date_terminated | date | Final docket entry date, bankruptcy case closed. |
| Debtor Discharged Date | debtor_discharged_date | date | Court enters the date when the plan is fulfilled and debtor has completed plan repayments. |
| Plan Confirmed Date | plan_confirmed_date | date | Date when the plan was confirmed. |
| ID | id | long | |
| First Observed Date | first_observed_date | string | |
| Last Observed Date | last_observed_date | string | |
| Rank | rank | integer | Determines the display order of the attribute, with lower values shown first |
Name
Description
These are entities which U.S. law recognizes as having an identity and rights. They can be either natural persons, or artificial entities such as businesses and governmental bodies.
Pricing tier: Free
| Field | Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Name | name | string | The legal entity's name. |
| Legal Entity Type | legal_entity_type | string | The legal form of the entity. This can either be "Person", for natural persons, or for business entities one of a number of legal forms. |
| Record Count | record_count | long | Total number of upstream source records linked to this legal entity. |
| Record Sources | record_sources | array | Distinct titles of the datasets the linked records came from. |
| Record Tags | record_tags | array | Distinct tags across all linked records. |
| Record Tag Counts | record_tag_counts | map(string, long) | Number of linked records per tag. |
| Record Source Counts | record_source_counts | map(string, long) | Number of linked records per source dataset. |
| ID | id | long | |
| First Observed Date | first_observed_date | string | |
| Last Observed Date | last_observed_date | string | |
| Rank | rank | integer | Determines the display order of the attribute, with lower values shown first |
Type
Description
These are entities which U.S. law recognizes as having an identity and rights. They can be either natural persons, or artificial entities such as businesses and governmental bodies.
Pricing tier: Free
| Field | Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Legal Entity Type | legal_entity_type | string | The legal form of the entity. This can either be "Person", for natural persons, or for business entities one of a number of legal forms. |
| ID | id | long | |
| First Observed Date | first_observed_date | string | |
| Last Observed Date | last_observed_date | string | |
| Rank | rank | integer | Determines the display order of the attribute, with lower values shown first |
Verification Tier
Description
A tiered grouping of the verification evidence Enigma has gathered for a legal entity, alongside the underlying signals that drove the grouping. Each tier corresponds to a level of independence and resistance to manipulation in the evidence: higher tiers require evidence that comes from independent third parties and is harder for an actor to fabricate.
How to act on a given tier — for example, what threshold should gate onboarding or what should trigger manual review — depends on the policy and risk appetite of the consuming application. The per-tier signals are exposed alongside the overall tier so applications can either use the tier directly or compose their own logic on top of the signals.
Tiers
The verification_tier field reflects the strongest tier for which the
legal entity has at least one positive signal.
- tier_3: At least one signal that is hard to manipulate and comes from an independent third party is present — for example, a verified open operating location, sustained card-transaction activity with positive revenue over a twelve-month period, a long and dense customer review history across active locations, or a record sourced from a government agency.
- tier_2: Signals that can still be fabricated but require meaningful effort are present — customer reviews across active operating locations or a working website associated with the legal entity's brands.
- tier_1: Only signals that an actor could produce quickly and with little effort are present — corporate registration or an Employer Identification Number (EIN).
- none: Reserved. Not produced in the current implementation: the universe is gated to legal entities with a registration whose latest status is active or unknown, so every output row reaches at least Tier 1.
Pricing tier: Premium
| Field | Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Verification Tier | verification_tier | string | Strongest tier of evidence for the legal entity. One of tier_3, tier_2, tier_1. |
| Tier 1 Signals | tier_1_signals | struct | Tier 1 evidence — corporate registration and EIN. |
| Tier 2 Signals | tier_2_signals | struct | Tier 2 evidence — reviews at active locations and working websites. |
| Tier 3 Signals | tier_3_signals | struct | Tier 3 evidence — Open locations, sustained card transactions with positive revenue, substantial review history at active locations, and government records. |
| ID | id | long | |
| First Observed Date | first_observed_date | string | |
| Last Observed Date | last_observed_date | string | |
| Rank | rank | integer | Determines the display order of the attribute, with lower values shown first |
Relationships
Legal Entity connects to other entities in the Enigma graph:
| Direction | Relationship | Target Entity |
|---|---|---|
| → | appears on | Watchlist Entry |
| → | does business as | Brand |
| → | files taxes using | Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN) |
| → | is affiliated with | Legal Entity |
| → | is associated with | Record |
| → | is flagged by | Watchlist Entry |
| → | is mentioned in | Media Content |
| → | licenses | Brand |
| → | owns | Brand |
| → | owns location | Operating Location |
| → | performs | Role |
| → | receives mail at | Address |
| ← | is instance of | Person |
| ← | is instance of | Registered Entity |