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I mapped my country's businesses and their owners relationships. Some very interesting things popped up. A private yellow/fake news company with THOUSANDS of owners/shareholders, lots of people with few hundred companies. company "rings" etc. Pretty fun stuff :)

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Very cool! Do you mind posting what ontology you used for the graph? It is difficult to figure out what is a "node" or what is a "node property". Is "energy demand" of a company a property of the company node, or is that a node itself that connects to energy supply companies?

My ontology is very simple, since I only care about owners/shareholders

2 types of nodes

  1) Company  
    <-> Owners ( Company|Person )  
    Incorporation Date  
    Name  
    Type (llc, c-corp,s-corp, publicly traded, etc)  
  2) Person  
     <-> Companies  
     Name

I can start adding other types of relationships and properties, but that was not my goal :)

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