Creates a fingerprint for the given entity name. It supports special character, emojis (because we all know that emoji's in company names are coming), and entity types in other non-latin scripts.

Examples

  iex(1)> EntityFingerprint.create("ФИЛИАЛ КОМПАНИИ С ОГРАНИЧЕННОЙ")

  {:ok,
  [
    fingerprint: "filial kompanii ogranichennoy s",
    original: "ФИЛИАЛ КОМПАНИИ С ОГРАНИЧЕННОЙ",
    script: "cyrillic"
  ]}

  iex(2)> EntityFingerprint.create("ООО КУРЬЕР-РЕГИОН СТОЛИЦА")

  {:ok,
  [
    fingerprint: "kurerregion ooo stolitsa",
    original: "ООО КУРЬЕР-РЕГИОН СТОЛИЦА",
    script: "cyrillic"
  ]}

  iex(3)> EntityFingerprint.create("Google Limited Liability Company")

  {:ok,
  [
    fingerprint: "google llc",
    original: "Google Limited Liability Company",
    script: "latin"
  ]}

  iex(4)> EntityFingerprint.create("현대해상화재보험")

  {:ok,
  [
    fingerprint: "hyeondaehaesanghwajaeboheom",
    original: "현대해상화재보험",
    script: "hangul"
  ]}

  iex(5)> EntityFingerprint.create(" 💩 Limited Liability Company")

  {:ok,
  [
    fingerprint: "llc poop",
    original: " 💩 Limited Liability Company",
    script: "common"
  ]}

  iex(6)> EntityFingerprint.create("佐贤鸣智（上海）企业管理咨询有限公司")
  {:ok,
  [
    fingerprint: "guanlizixun shanghai zuoxianmingzhi",
    original: "佐贤鸣智（上海）企业管理咨询有限公司",
    script: "han"
  ]}

  iex(7)> EntityFingerprint.create("Siemens Aktiengesellschaft")
  {:ok,
  [
    fingerprint: "ag siemens",
    original: "Siemens Aktiengesellschaft",
    script: "latin"
  ]}

  iex(8)> EntityFingerprint.create("New York, New York")
  {:ok,
  [fingerprint: "new york", original: "New York, New York", script: "latin"]}

Thanks

This library was heavily inspired by the python tool alephdata/fingerprints

• A Google Spreadsheet created by OCCRP.

• The ISO 20275: Entity Legal Forms Code List

• Wikipedia also maintains an index of types of business entity.

See also

• Clustering in Depth, part of the OpenRefine documentation discussing how to create collisions in data clustering.