Property talk:P355

Documentation

has subsidiary
subsidiary of a company or organization; generally a fully owned separate corporation. Compare with "business division" (P199). Opposite of parent organization (P749).

Description

Subsidiaries of a company. Opposite of parent organization (P749).

Represents

subsidiary (Q658255)

Data type

Item

Domain

According to this template: organisations, specifically company (Q783794)

According to statements in the property:
organization (Q43229), fictional organization (Q14623646), project (Q170584) or corporation (Q167037)

When possible, data should only be stored as statements

Allowed values

organisations, specifically company (Q783794) (note: this should be moved to the property statements)

Example

The Walt Disney Company (Q7414) → Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures (Q1323594)
Walt Disney Animation Studios (Q1047410)
Microsoft (Q2283) → Skype Technologies (Q246125)
Toons Mag (Q64692267) → Periodical (Q67520005)

Tracking: same

no label (Q42533285)

Tracking: usage

Category:Pages using Wikidata property P355 (Q23909080)

See also

business division (P199), has part(s) (P527), owner of (P1830), next lower rank (P3729), has part(s) of the class (P2670)

Lists

Proposal discussion

[not applicable Proposal discussion]

Current uses

Total	108,067
Main statement	107,990	>99.9% of uses
Qualifier	75	<0.1% of uses
Reference	2	<0.1% of uses

Search for values

[create Create a translatable help page (preferably in English) for this property to be included here]

Type “organization (Q43229), fictional organization (Q14623646), project (Q170584), corporation (Q167037)”: item must contain property “instance of (P31)” with classes “organization (Q43229), fictional organization (Q14623646), project (Q170584), corporation (Q167037)” or their subclasses (defined using subclass of (P279)). (Help)

Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303).
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P355#Type Q43229, Q14623646, Q170584, Q167037, SPARQL

Value type “organization (Q43229), fictional organization (Q14623646), project (Q170584), facility (Q13226383)”: This property should use items as value that contain property “instance of (P31)”. On these, the value for instance of (P31) should be an item that uses subclass of (P279) with value organization (Q43229), fictional organization (Q14623646), project (Q170584), facility (Q13226383) (or a subclass thereof). (Help)

Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303).
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P355#Value type Q43229, Q14623646, Q170584, Q13226383, SPARQL

Inverse property of “parent organization (P749)”:
if [item A] has this property (has subsidiary (P355)) linked to [item B],
then [item B] should also have property “parent organization (P749)” linked to [item A]. (Help)

Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303).
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P355#inverse, SPARQL

Scope is as main value (Q54828448): the property must be used by specified way only (Help)

Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303).
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P355#Scope, SPARQL

Allowed entity types are Wikibase item (Q29934200): the property may only be used on a certain entity type (Help)

Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303).
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P355#Entity types

Contemporaries:
if [item A] has this property (has subsidiary (P355)) linked to [item B],
then [item A] and [item B] have to coincide or coexist at some point of history. (Help)

Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303).
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P355#Contemporary, SPARQL

This property is being used by:

Please notify projects that use this property before big changes (renaming, deletion, merge with another property, etc.)

Possible rename

I suggest we change has subsidiary (P355) which does not seem grammatically correct and is therefore confusing, if I add the property has subsidiary (P355) it appears that the parent item is a subsidiary of the items listed in that property, I'd recommend we change the label to "subsidiaries," "subsidiary entities," or "Parent company of" with the aka, "subsidiaries"
Done Jared Zimmerman (talk) 22:49, 12 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Usage

Title	ID	Data type	Description	Examples	Inverse
has subsidiary	P355	Item	subsidiary: subsidiaries of a company	[[d:The Walt Disney Company\|The Walt Disney Company]] <has subsidiary> [[d:Walt Disney Pictures> <Walt Disney Animation Studios> <Walt Disney Theatrical> <Pixar Animation Studios> <Marvel Entertainment> <Lucasfilm Ltd. LLC> <The Muppets Holding Company> <others\|Walt Disney Pictures> <Walt Disney Animation Studios> <Walt Disney Theatrical> <Pixar Animation Studios> <Marvel Entertainment> <Lucasfilm Ltd. LLC> <The Muppets Holding Company> <others]]	parent organization

The inverse property exists, parent organization (P749) but it doesn't have the actual inverse property logic associating them together, or the script to check for violations.
Jared Zimmerman (talk) 23:01, 12 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The description does not fit the property (in English) and the inverse property is needed as well

Given that some organisations like "the art institute" have many subsidiaries, it makes sense to be able to indicate "subsidiary of".

The current text describes exactly this but uses it where it is actually a list. Thanks, GerardM (talk) 12:04, 12 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Type: company (Q783794) or business (Q4830453)?

I notice that Whirlpool Corporation (Q1471346) has conflicts involving this property because the subsidiaries are not instances of company (Q783794) but business (Q4830453). Should business (Q4830453) be a subclass of company (Q783794)? Or the converse, and we should therefore change this constraint? I am not familiar enough with companies to understand the difference between the two notions. − Pintoch (talk) 18:30, 8 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Notified participants of WikiProject Companies

I have just set business (Q4830453) to be a subclass of company (Q783794). Feel free to change if you see a better solution! − Pintoch (talk) 20:03, 18 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Rename to better support other kinds of organizations

From "subsidiary" to "parent organization of"

In 2013, there was a suggestion to change the English label from "subsidiary" to better reflect the inverse relationship (at the time, "parent company of").

In 2017, to support the use of the property for organizations that are not commercial companies, the inverse property parent organization (P749) was revised to have a type constraint of organization (Q43229), matching the broadening of its English label from "parent company" to "parent organization" (https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Property%3AP749&type=revision&diff=1042066557&oldid=514976974).

I propose that we reflect the same broadening for this, its inverse property, to use "parent organization of"; this label also parallels others such as instance of (P31), subclass of (P279), part of (P361), member of (P463), facet of (P1269), and subproperty of (P1647). Dan scott (talk) 00:46, 8 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Parent organization versus part of

I started a discussion about the relation between this property and has part(s) (P527) at Wikidata:Project chat/Archive/2021/01#Parent organization versus part of, please comment there. —Tacsipacsi (talk) 23:00, 19 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]