Anatomy of a resolved record
One company, every value traced to its source.
This is a single resolved record, opened up. Every field carries its value, the source it came from, a calibrated confidence, and a plain-language note on how it was worked out. The company below is invented for the walkthrough, so you can read the shape of a real record without looking at anyone's private data.
synthetic example · not a real company
Meridian Glassworks LLC
01 · Identity
Who the company is
One legal entity, anchored to a government charter. Every other value in this record is checked back against this identity.
The Ohio charter number is the anchor. It pins this exact legal name, and the rest of the record is filled in around it.
A second internal copy carried this spelling. The two records merged into one, and both source strings were kept.
Read straight from the Ohio Secretary of State register on its monthly refresh.
Standardized from the charter's entity type, then reconciled against the suffix in the name.
The registration date on the original charter filing.
The state charter number. This is the strong key the whole record hangs from.
Cross-checked against the IRS record for the same legal name and state. An open identifier, shown masked in this synthetic example.
The federal Unique Entity ID from SAM.gov, matched on name and address.
A private LLC below the reporting threshold carries no LEI. The record says so rather than inventing one.
02 · Contact
How to reach it
Web presence confirmed live, with each channel carrying the confidence its single source has earned.
The legal name plus the Toledo location resolves to one domain. The crawler confirmed it answers before it was accepted.
A fresh fetch on the crawl. A dead domain would drop to review rather than ship as live.
Scraped from the company homepage. One uncorroborated web source sits below the bar for a critical field, and the confidence is honest about that.
03 · Geography
Where it sits
A postal address standardized to one shape, then geocoded to a point on the map.
Normalized against the USPS address database.
Confirmed by the geocoder against the postal record.
Ohio, OH, and US-OH all fold to one canonical region code.
Validated and completed from the standardized street address.
Read from the region, then checked against the address and the charter jurisdiction.
The address geocodes to a rooftop point. A low-confidence geocode would route to review instead of shipping a guess.
Derived from the coordinates through the timezone gazetteer.
04 · Classification
What it does
Industry codes derived from the standardized activity text, then checked against how the company describes itself.
Derived from the Census industry crosswalk on the standardized activity, then confirmed against the homepage.
Mapped from the NAICS code through the standard crosswalk.
Read from how the company describes itself on its own site.
An estimate carried from the parent's filing. Flagged as an estimate, and at 0.88 it stays below what we would publish as a hard fact.
05 · Corporate family
Who owns it
The parent link comes from a filing that names it, so the relationship carries its own citation.
An SEC exhibit 21 subsidiary list names Meridian Industries Inc as the parent. That filing is the citation.
The chain terminates one level up. No higher owner appears in any filing.
Stated on the same exhibit that names the parent.
Other subsidiaries on the same exhibit, each resolved to its own record.
06 · Provenance and confidence
Why you can trust it
The record is assembled like a constraint puzzle and audited like a ledger. Nothing is asserted without a source behind it.
The charter pins the name, the name pins the website, the website and an SEC exhibit name the parent. Each known value rules out wrong answers for the rest, the way a filled cell constrains a sudoku.
REC-0002114 and REC-0007801 were the same company. They merged into one, and both source records stayed attached.
Any value under its tier's calibrated bar routes to a human instead of being forced. Refusing to guess is how the record stays honest.
EIN, NAICS, UEI, and other open IDs are returnable. Proprietary identifiers may be used internally to resolve the record, and are never returned.
The record carries a receipt over its sourced values, so a run can be verified and compared later.
Every record, built this way