corporation

legal entity incorporated through a legislative or registration process
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corporation

Summary

corporation is a legal form[1]. corporation ranks in the top 5% of legal_form entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,649 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • corporation's instance of is recorded as legal form[3].
  • corporation's main regulatory text is recorded as by-law[4].
  • corporation is a type of juridical person[5].
  • corporation is a type of company[6].
  • corporation is part of economy[7].
  • corporation's Commons category is recorded as Corporations[8].
  • corporation is the opposite of partnership[9].
  • corporation comprises articles of incorporation[10].
  • corporation's has cause is recorded as incorporation[11].
  • corporation's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Corporations[12].
  • corporation's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[13].
  • corporation's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[14].
  • corporation's described by source is recorded as The New Student's Reference Work[15].
  • corporation's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 5[16].
  • corporation's partially coincident with is recorded as corporate body[17].
  • corporation's topic has template is recorded as Template:Aspects of corporations[18].
  • corporation's has characteristic is recorded as corporate identity[19].
  • corporation's has characteristic is recorded as corporate personhood[20].
  • corporation's equivalent class is recorded as https://schema.org/Corporation[21].
  • corporation's equivalent class is recorded as http://pcp-on-web.de/ontology#Corporation[22].
  • corporation's different from is recorded as corporation[23].
  • corporation's has goal is recorded as profit maximization[24].
  • corporation's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[25].

Body

Definition and Type

corporation's instance of is recorded as legal form[3]. Recorded subclass of include juridical person[5] and company[6]. corporation is the opposite of partnership[9].

Use and Application

corporation comprises articles of incorporation[10]. corporation is part of economy[7].

Why It Matters

corporation ranks in the top 5% of legal_form entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,649 views/month).[2] corporation has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[26] corporation is known by 55 alternative names across languages and contexts.[27]

References

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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.
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  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

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

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [26] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [27] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 6w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of legal form
    Main regulatory text by-law
    Part of economy
    On focus list of wikimedia project Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
    + 16 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007565198305171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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