What you can ask
- “What does GLEIF Entity Registry have for the area or asset I'm working on?”
- “Pull the most recent GLEIF Entity Registry records and put them in a table.”
- “What does GLEIF Entity Registry cover, and how fresh is the data?”
About this source
GLEIF (Global Legal Entity Identifier) — resolve a company name to its LEI and an LEI to its direct/ultimate PARENT. No auth. USE: map an operator subsidiary (e.g. "Pioneer Natural Resources USA") to its ultimate parent — the recurring problem where regulators list many subsidiary names for one major. METHODS: searchEntities (by name), suggestEntities (fuzzy name→LEI), getEntity (by LEI), getUltimateParent, getDirectParent. RULES: LEIs are 20-char [A-Z0-9]. A null parent means no parent relationship is recorded. When parentReportingException is present, read its reason and meaning (e.g. NO_LEI = parent has no LEI; NATURAL_PERSONS or NON_CONSOLIDATING = no qualifying parent entity); do not infer more. Global coverage incl. private subsidiaries SEC lacks.
Connector ID gleif
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› Methods (5)
Technical detail for developers: parameters, pagination, units, and freshness per method.
searchEntities
readSearch legal entities by name; returns LEI, jurisdiction, status, address.
Required paramsnamelimit (max 100) + 1-based page to walk past the first page; total counts all.
suggestEntities
unknownFuzzy autocomplete: resolve a partial/variant company name to candidate LEIs.
Required paramsquerygetEntity
readFetch one entity by its 20-character LEI.
Required paramsleigetUltimateParent
readResolve an LEI to its ultimate parent (null + parentReportingException.reason when none).
Required paramsleigetDirectParent
readResolve an LEI to its direct parent (null + parentReportingException.reason when none).
Required paramslei