Corporate Hierarchy

Uncover corporate ownership. Automatically. At scale.

AI researchers trace an entity's ownership chain up to its ultimate parent across government registries and web sources. No more manual research.

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POST /v1/entity/{entity_id}/ultimate-parent

MG MOTOR UK LTD

ultimate parent: Shanghai SASAC

completed

Ownership

Company MG MOTOR UK LTD · GB

Ultimate parent Shanghai SASAC · CN

Parent type government

Evidence

UK Companies House 05779958

SAIC Motor annual report

POST /v1/entity/{entity_id}/ultimate-parent

200 OK application/json

{
  "entity_id": "siq_303bOyvScnpCchGvOckDr",
  "status": "completed",
  "data": {
    "target_entity": {
      "id": "e1",
      "name": "MG MOTOR UK LTD"
    },
    "ultimate_parent": {
      "id": "e6",
      "name": "Shanghai State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (Shanghai SASAC)"
    },
    "entities": [
      {
        "id": "e1",
        "name": "MG MOTOR UK LTD",
        "country_code": "GB",
        "organization_type": "business"
      },
      {
        "id": "e6",
        "name": "Shanghai State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (Shanghai SASAC)",
        "country_code": "CN",
        "organization_type": "government"
      }
    ],
    "evidence": [
      "https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/05779958",
      "https://www.saicmotor.com/english/images/investor_relations/annual_report/2024/5/31/DE63B019CA9A441FA0801360B6121A6E.pdf"
    ]
  }
}

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How it works

Submit an entity

Give us a company and our AI researchers start tracing its ownership chain.

Agents research live

We trace ownership across government registries and web sources in real time, with full transparency into every hop.

Get the chain

Receive the ownership chain from the entity up to its ultimate owner, every hop with its evidence, with 92% matching accuracy.

Live research output

Real ownership structures, traced by the API

Four real structures our agents researched: state ownership, holding companies, a fresh merger, and a deep private-equity chain. Drag to pan, zoom to inspect.

MG Motor UK → Shanghai SASAC

MG Motor UK Ltd sits three hops below SAIC Motor Corporation Limited through SAIC Motor International UK Ltd (formerly Nanjing Automobile Corporation (UK) Limited); SAIC Group holds 63.27% of it as at 31 December 2024 and is a state owned enterprise supervised by Shanghai SASAC.

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Why teams choose Entity Hierarchy

Real-time deep research

Agents research ownership live rather than reading from a stale, pre-computed dataset.

92% matching accuracy

The same AI-agent resolution that powers our entity resolution, applied to ownership chains.

Ownership traced upward

Parents, holding companies, and the ultimate controlling entity across jurisdictions, with ownership percentages where known.

Full research transparency

See the sources and every hop behind each link, so you can trust and audit the structure.

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GET /v3/runs/run_344tSxhAVACWbuENINJ9D

{
  "run_id": "run_344tSxhAVACWbuENINJ9D",
  "status": "matched",
  "match_confidence": 100,
  "type": "business",
  "entity": {
    "id": "siq_33d67jj0wJESjEdFHMhuQ",
    "display_name": "Datadog",
    "legal_name": "DATADOG, INC.",
    "primary_legal_entity": {
      "jurisdiction": "US-DE"
    },
    "identifiers": [
      {
        "type": "registration_id",
        "value": "4832851",
        "jurisdiction": "US-DE"
      }
    ],
    "website": "https://www.datadoghq.com/"
  }
}