Organisations

Organisation

Label Organisation

Description

Organisations are entities in the knowledge graph that have the ability to employ and/or affiliate people, specifically members of the Parliament. MPs self-declare these organisations, and the specific type of it is included in the node’s co-label.

Co-labels:Limited Partnership | General Partnership | Ambiguous Employer | Limited Liability Company | Simple Cooperative | Party | Commission | Interest Group | Cooperative | Public Foundation | Corporation | Foundation | Public Body | Employer | Club | Public Institute | Postprocessing Necessary | Federal Commission

Attributes

• identifier name: string

  Name of the organisation. Must be unique.

• (optional) abbrev: string

  Abbreviation of the organisation name (if one exists).

• (optional) date_dissolution: date

  Date of the organisation dissolution, if dissolved.

• (optional) date_foundation: date

  Date of the organisation foundation, if available.

Connected relations

Outgoing

• CLASSIFIED_AS to Party Class

• RELATES_TO to Party

Incoming

• ACTING_AS from Person

• ASSOCIATED_WITH from Person

• MEMBER_OF from Person

• RELATES_TO from Party

• WORKS_FOR from Person

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General Partnership

Label General Partnership

Description

General Partnerships (Kollektivgesellschaft) are a type of Organisation that the MPs can declare as a conflicting Interest Group.

Co-labels:Postprocessing Necessary | Interest Group | Organisation

Attributes

• identifier name: string

  Name of the partnership.

Connected relations

Incoming

• ASSOCIATED_WITH from Person

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Cooperative

Label Cooperative

Description

Cooperatives (Genossenschaft) are a type of Organisation that the MPs can declare as a conflicting Interest Group.

Co-labels:Postprocessing Necessary | Interest Group | Organisation

Attributes

• identifier name: string

  Cooperative’s name.

Connected relations

Incoming

• ASSOCIATED_WITH from Person

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Simple Cooperative

Label Simple Cooperative

Description

Simple Cooperatives (Einfache Gesellschaft) are a type of Organisation that the MPs can declare as their Employers or a conflicting Interest Group.

Co-labels:Interest Group | Employer | Club | Postprocessing Necessary | Organisation

Attributes

• identifier name: string

  Name of the cooperative.

Connected relations

Incoming

• ASSOCIATED_WITH from Person

• WORKS_FOR from Person

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Foundation

Label Foundation

Description

Foundations (Stiftung) are a type of Organisation that the MPs can declare as a conflicting Interest Group.

Co-labels:Postprocessing Necessary | Interest Group | Organisation

Attributes

• identifier name: string

  Name of the foundation.

Connected relations

Incoming

• ASSOCIATED_WITH from Person

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Corporation

Label Corporation

Description

Corporations (Aktiengesellschaft) are a type of Organisation that the MPs can declare as their Employers or a conflicting Interest Group.

Co-labels:Postprocessing Necessary | Interest Group | Employer | Organisation

Attributes

• identifier name: string

  Corporation’s name.

Connected relations

Incoming

• ASSOCIATED_WITH from Person

• WORKS_FOR from Person

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Club

Label Club

Description

Clubs (Verein) are a type of Organisation that the MPs can declare as their Employers or a conflicting Interest Group.

Co-labels:Simple Cooperative | Interest Group | Employer | Postprocessing Necessary | Organisation

Attributes

• identifier name: string

  The name associated with the club.

Connected relations

Incoming

• ASSOCIATED_WITH from Person

• WORKS_FOR from Person

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Limited Liability Company

Label Limited Liability Company

Description

Limited Liability Companies (Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung) are a type of Organisation that the MPs can declare as their Employers or a conflicting Interest Group.

Co-labels:Postprocessing Necessary | Interest Group | Employer | Organisation

Attributes

• identifier name: string

Connected relations

Incoming

• ASSOCIATED_WITH from Person

• WORKS_FOR from Person

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Public Body

Label Public Body

Description

Public Bodies (Körperschaft des öffentlichen Rechts) are a type of Organisation that the MPs can declare as a conflicting Interest Group.

Co-labels:Postprocessing Necessary | Interest Group | Organisation

Attributes

• identifier name: string

  Name of the public body.

Connected relations

Incoming

• ASSOCIATED_WITH from Person

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Party

Label Party

Description

Parties are groups of individuals that share similar political views. However, they only play a secondary role to Parliamentary Groups since the Federal Assembly only recognises the latter as an organ. Therefore, nodes with this label do not have any relations with Bills. Parties may also dissolve and evolve into new parties,in which case the respective nodes will be connected by a RELATES_TO relation.

Co-labels:Organisation

Attributes

• identifier name: string

  Official name of the party.

• abbrev: string

  Abbreviation of the party name.

• date_foundation: date

  Date of the party foundation.

• (optional) date_dissolution: date

  Date of the party dissolution, if party is dissolved.

Connected relations

Outgoing

• CLASSIFIED_AS to Party Class

• RELATES_TO to Party

Incoming

• ACTING_AS from Person

• MEMBER_OF from Person

• RELATES_TO from Party

Constraints

• A Party must contain the attributes ‘abbrev’, ‘date_foundation’
• A Party must follow a defined structure:
  • It must be connected to a “Party Class” with a CLASSIFIED_AS relation

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Public Foundation

Label Public Foundation

Description

Public Foundations (Öffentlich-rechtliche Stiftung) are a type of Organisation that the MPs can declare as a conflicting Interest Group.

Co-labels:Postprocessing Necessary | Interest Group | Organisation

Attributes

• identifier name: string

  Name of the public foundation.

Connected relations

Incoming

• ASSOCIATED_WITH from Person

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Public Institute

Label Public Institute

Description

Public Institute (Öffentlich-rechtliche Anstalt) are a type of Organisation that the MPs can declare as a conflicting Interest Group.

Co-labels:Postprocessing Necessary | Interest Group | Organisation

Attributes

• identifier name: string

  Name of the public institute.

Connected relations

Incoming

• ASSOCIATED_WITH from Person

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Federal Commission

Label Federal Commission

Description

Federal Commissions (Eidgenössische Kommission) are a type of Organisation that the MPs can declare as a conflicting Interest Group.

Co-labels:Postprocessing Necessary | Interest Group | Organisation

Attributes

• identifier name: string

  The name of the Federal Commission.

Connected relations

Incoming

• ASSOCIATED_WITH from Person

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Ambiguous Employer

Label Ambiguous Employer

Description

Used when the person’s employer description is unspecified or ambiguous. Only one node with this label exists in the database and all Persons with an employer info that is not concise will be related to that node.

Co-labels:Organisation

Attributes

• identifier name: string

  Literal string containing “Ambiguous Employer”.

Connected relations

Incoming

• WORKS_FOR from Person

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Limited Partnership

Label Limited Partnership

Description

Limited Partnerships (Kommanditgesellschaft) are a type of Organisation that the MPs can declare as a conflicting Interest Group.

Co-labels:Postprocessing Necessary | Interest Group | Organisation

Attributes

• identifier name: string

Connected relations

Incoming

• ASSOCIATED_WITH from Person

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Interest Group

Label Interest Group

Description

The Interest Group label is given to nodes that represent Organisations that members of the Parliament are affiliated with and therefore are sources of conflicts of interest. MPs self declare their interest groups.

Co-labels:Limited Partnership | General Partnership | Limited Liability Company | Simple Cooperative | Cooperative | Commission | Public Foundation | Public Body | Corporation | Foundation | Employer | Club | Public Institute | Postprocessing Necessary | Organisation | Federal Commission

Attributes

• identifier name: string

  Name of the interest group.

Connected relations

Incoming

• ASSOCIATED_WITH from Person

• WORKS_FOR from Person

Constraints

• An Interest Group must have an Organisation label as well as one type as a label additionally to the Interest Group label. Further it can have the label ‘Postprocessing Necessary’. The type is categorical and must be one of the following: Foundation Corporation Club Limited Liability Company Commission Cooperative Simple Cooperative Federal Commission Public Institute Public Body Public Foundation General Partnership Limited Partnership
• An Interest Group must follow a defined structure:
  • It must be connected to at least one Person with a ASSOCIATED_WITH relation

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Employer

Label Employer

Description

The employer label is given to nodes that represent Organisations that have employed members of the Parliament. MPs self declare their employers. If the self-declared employer does not refer to a unique organisation, the person’s WORKS_FOR relation goes to the Ambiguous Employer instead.

Co-labels:Limited Liability Company | Simple Cooperative | Interest Group | Corporation | Club | Postprocessing Necessary | Organisation

Attributes

• identifier name: string

  The name of the Employer.

Connected relations

Incoming

• ASSOCIATED_WITH from Person

• WORKS_FOR from Person

Constraints

• An Employer must follow a defined structure:
  • It must be connected to at least one Person with a WORKS_FOR relation

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