gr:BusinessEntity

owl:Thing
- gr:BusinessEntity
  - http://schema.org/Organization
  - http://schema.org/Person

URI

http://purl.org/goodrelations/v1#BusinessEntity

Label

Business entity

Description

An instance of this class represents the legal agent making (or seeking) a particular offering. This can be a legal body or a person. A business entity has at least a primary mailing address and contact details. For this, typical address standards (vCard) and location data (geo, WGS84) can be attached. Note that the location of the business entity is not necessarily the location from which the product or service is being available (e.g. the branch or store). Use gr:Location for stores and branches.

Example: Siemens Austria AG, Volkswagen Ltd., Peter Miller's Cell phone Shop LLC

Compatibility with schema.org: This class is equivalent to the union of http://schema.org/Person and http://schema.org/Organization.

Usage

Instances of gr:BusinessEntity can have the following properties:

PROPERTY	TYPE	DESCRIPTION	RANGE
From class owl:Thing
dc:contributor	owl:AnnotationProperty		owl:Thing
dc:creator	owl:AnnotationProperty		owl:Thing
dc:rights	owl:AnnotationProperty		owl:Thing
dc:subject	owl:AnnotationProperty		owl:Thing
dc:title	owl:AnnotationProperty		owl:Thing
dcterms:license	owl:AnnotationProperty		owl:Thing
foaf:depiction	owl:ObjectProperty		owl:Thing
foaf:homepage	owl:AnnotationProperty		owl:Thing
gr:displayPosition	owl:AnnotationProperty	The position at which the option or element should be listed in a menu or user dialog, lower numbers come first. The main usage of this property are the days of the week (gr:DayOfWeek), but it is also possible to apply it e.g. to product features or any other conceptual element. Note: Rely on this property only for data originating from a single RDF graph; otherwise, unpredictable results are possible.	owl:Thing
gr:relatedWebService	owl:AnnotationProperty	The URI of a SOAP or REST Web Service from which additional information about the gr:BusinessEntity, gr:Offering, gr:PriceSpecification, or gr:ProductOrService, or any other element, can be obtained. The recommended range is xsd:anyURI i.e., the URI of a SOAP or REST Web Service. In principle, any existing or upcoming vocabulary for Web Services can be used in combination with GoodRelations, because the association between (a) the service description and (b) the GoodRelations description can be found via the Web Service URI value used with this gr:relatedWebService property.	owl:Thing
http://schema.org/description	owl:DatatypeProperty		owl:Thing
http://schema.org/image	owl:ObjectProperty		owl:Thing
http://schema.org/manufacturer	owl:ObjectProperty		owl:Thing
http://schema.org/name	owl:DatatypeProperty		owl:Thing
http://schema.org/productID	owl:DatatypeProperty		owl:Thing
owl:deprecated	owl:AnnotationProperty		owl:Thing

Implementation

@prefix gr: <http://purl.org/goodrelations/v1#> .
@prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> .
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .

gr:BusinessEntity a owl:Class ;
    rdfs:label "Business entity"@en ;
    rdfs:comment """An instance of this class represents the legal agent making (or seeking) a particular offering. This can be a legal body or a person. A business entity has at least a primary mailing address and contact details. For this, typical address standards (vCard) and location data (geo, WGS84) can be attached. Note that the location of the business entity is not necessarily the location from which the product or service is being available (e.g. the branch or store). Use gr:Location for stores and branches.
		
Example: Siemens Austria AG, Volkswagen Ltd., Peter Miller's Cell phone Shop LLC

Compatibility with schema.org: This class is equivalent to the union of http://schema.org/Person and http://schema.org/Organization.		
"""@en ;
    rdfs:isDefinedBy <http://purl.org/goodrelations/v1> ;
    owl:disjointWith gr:Brand,
        gr:BusinessEntityType,
        gr:BusinessFunction,
        gr:DayOfWeek,
        gr:DeliveryMethod,
        gr:Location,
        gr:Offering,
        gr:OpeningHoursSpecification,
        gr:PaymentMethod,
        gr:PriceSpecification,
        gr:QuantitativeValue,
        gr:TypeAndQuantityNode,
        gr:WarrantyPromise,
        gr:WarrantyScope ;
    owl:equivalentClass [ a owl:Class ;
            owl:unionOf ( <http://schema.org/Person> <http://schema.org/Organization> ) ] .