Wikidata:Property proposal/Singapore Unique Entity Number
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Singapore Unique Entity Number
[edit]Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Organization
Description | unique identifier issued to businesses in Singapore |
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Data type | External identifier |
Example 1 | NCS Pte Ltd (Q6953220) → 198101793G |
Example 2 | SPH Media (Q111607422) → 202120748H |
Example 3 | Oh Baby Games (Q131436457) → 202134064M |
Source | https://www.bizfile.gov.sg/overview/buy-information |
Expected completeness | always incomplete (Q21873886) |
URL match pattern | ^https?:\/\/(?:www\.)?bizfile\.gov\.sg\/buy-info\/entity-details\?type=bp&uen=(\d{9}[A-Z])$ |
See also | Companies House company ID (P2622), SIREN number (P1616) |
Distinct-values constraint | yes |
Wikidata project | WikiProject Singapore (Q14605793) |
Motivation
[edit]UENs are issued to businesses operating in Singapore (more info) and they serve as a useful Wikidata property to identify organizations in company registers (Q26235166).
While the government website wants you to pay to access the information, there are a good few third-party website that provide more information using the same UENs: example 1, example 2.
--Lewis Hulbert (talk) 06:44, 13 December 2024 (UTC)
Discussion
[edit]{{Ping project|Singapore}}. --Lewis Hulbert (talk) 06:47, 13 December 2024 (UTC)
- Nevermind, that apparently doesn't exist. --Lewis Hulbert (talk) 06:48, 13 December 2024 (UTC)
- Support: Important identifier for companies and non-profits. But I'm not sure about the formatter URL (P1630). The example URLs on bizefile.gov.sg show absolutely no information for me. --NGOgo (talk) 08:35, 13 December 2024 (UTC)
- Same for me, they are all empty pages. But that relates to the motivation, I guess, that you have to pay and log in. Ainali (talk) 14:07, 13 December 2024 (UTC)
- It seems to be that way for me now too, works fine when I click a link on the website but not from Wikidata - possibly detecting the referrer? I wanted to use that one as the "official" source but it may then be more suitable for a URL match pattern (P8966) than a formatter URL (P1630). You can find the pages on Bizfile easy enough with the search at https://www.bizfile.gov.sg/overview/buy-information, just paste the UEN into the search bar and change the keyword match type filter to "UEN (including previous UEN)" after it pops up. --Lewis Hulbert (talk) 15:39, 13 December 2024 (UTC)
- Done: Singapore Unique Entity Number (P13194) Germartin1 (talk) 06:49, 23 December 2024 (UTC)