> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.gdeltcloud.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Corporate hierarchy for a resolved entity > An entity's corporate hierarchy resolved through our spine: `direct_parent`, `ultimate_parent`, `children` and `child_count`. Accepts the same identifiers as the rest of the API — a name, an `e_` id, a `wiki:` id or a wikipedia_url — and additionally a bare 20-character LEI, so the identifier you searched with works at this hop too. **Read the `coverage` block before the hierarchy.** `lei_present: false` means the entity carries no LEI in our crosswalk — a coverage gap, NOT evidence the entity has no parent. `reporting_exception` carries the reason a filer gave for not naming a parent (for example NO_KNOWN_PERSON), which is a DECLARED absence and materially different from an unknown one. `child_count` is null, never 0, when the requested direction excluded children. Corporate hierarchy as reported to the Global LEI System: accounting consolidation under IFRS/US-GAAP, not percentage ownership and not beneficial ownership. Natural persons are out of scope, and reporting is partial — an absent parent usually means the filer declared a reporting exception rather than that none exists. Gated on the existing `can_use_exposure` entitlement; the LEI itself is ungated. Point-in-time (`as_of`) is not supported for this source. ## OpenAPI ````yaml /api-reference/openapi-v2.json get /api/v2/entities/{entity_id}/hierarchy openapi: 3.0.3 info: title: GDELT Cloud API v2 version: 2.0.0 description: >- Clean v2 REST API for generated GDELT Cloud structured Events, clustered Stories, linked Entities, summaries, admin1 discovery, significance ranking, and paginated article evidence. Event significance is a family-scoped weighted blend, renormalized so every event family spans a true 0-1: each event's raw total is divided by the maximum its own family can reach (Conflict 1.00, CAMEO+ POLITICAL 0.90, other CAMEO+ domains 0.65). All events: Goldstein severity 0.25, article evidence 0.05, confidence 0.05. Conflict only: fatalities 0.55 (log-scaled by body count) and civilian targeting 0.10. CAMEO+ only: magnitude 0.20, systemic importance 0.15, propagation potential 0.10, market sensitivity 0.10. When magnitude is unmeasured its term AND its 0.20 weight are both dropped. The four CAMEO+ metrics are rubric scores produced by published formulas - ordinal ranking signals, not measurements, probabilities, or predicted price moves. goldstein_scale is one canonical public metric, populated for Conflict Events and CAMEO+ POLITICAL Events where meaningful. Story linked_event_count is a Story-to-Event link aggregate, not a distinct Event total. servers: - url: https://gdeltcloud.com description: Production - url: http://localhost:3000 description: Local development security: - ApiKeyAuth: [] tags: - name: Events description: Coded CAMEO+ / conflict events — search, fetch, and summarize. - name: Stories description: Clustered narratives (stories) and their articles. - name: Entities description: >- People & organizations — resolve a name to an entity, then fetch its profile and tone. - name: Geography description: Admin-1 geography lookups. - name: Energy description: Global Energy Monitor assets + ownership registry. - name: Facilities description: >- Unified physical-asset directory — GEM energy assets + World Port Index ports + Epoch AI data centers on one keyed surface, resolved to spine owners. Plan-gated (Analyst plan and up). - name: Screening and Reference description: >- Restricted-party lists, screening, and ownership-chain exposure. Plan-gated (`can_use_screening` / `can_use_exposure`). - name: China description: >- China overseas development finance (AidData GCDF). Plan-gated (`can_use_china`). - name: Media Intelligence description: >- Entity tone (`can_use_tone`) and Share of Voice (`can_use_share_of_voice`) are plan-gated. Social signal remains an admin-only preview. - name: Filings description: >- SEC EDGAR filings, XBRL financials, and AI-extracted relations. Requires a plan with SEC filings access (`can_use_filings`) — the Corporate & Supply Chain plan and above. - name: Macro Finance description: >- FRED economic time series (catalog, point-in-time observations, releases). Plan-gated (`can_use_macro`). - name: Maritime description: >- AIS-derived vessel-flow signals across maritime chokepoints — chokepoint transits, last-known vessel positions, carriers, dwell, and AIS-dark gaps. Plan-gated (`can_use_maritime`). - name: Briefs description: Source-backed monitoring briefs. paths: /api/v2/entities/{entity_id}/hierarchy: get: tags: - Entities summary: Corporate hierarchy for a resolved entity description: >- An entity's corporate hierarchy resolved through our spine: `direct_parent`, `ultimate_parent`, `children` and `child_count`. Accepts the same identifiers as the rest of the API — a name, an `e_` id, a `wiki:` id or a wikipedia_url — and additionally a bare 20-character LEI, so the identifier you searched with works at this hop too. **Read the `coverage` block before the hierarchy.** `lei_present: false` means the entity carries no LEI in our crosswalk — a coverage gap, NOT evidence the entity has no parent. `reporting_exception` carries the reason a filer gave for not naming a parent (for example NO_KNOWN_PERSON), which is a DECLARED absence and materially different from an unknown one. `child_count` is null, never 0, when the requested direction excluded children. Corporate hierarchy as reported to the Global LEI System: accounting consolidation under IFRS/US-GAAP, not percentage ownership and not beneficial ownership. Natural persons are out of scope, and reporting is partial — an absent parent usually means the filer declared a reporting exception rather than that none exists. Gated on the existing `can_use_exposure` entitlement; the LEI itself is ungated. Point-in-time (`as_of`) is not supported for this source. operationId: get-entity-hierarchy-v2 parameters: - name: entity_id in: path required: true schema: type: string description: >- A name, an `e_` spine id, a `wiki:` news id, a wikipedia_url, or a bare 20-character LEI. example: Gazprom - name: direction in: query required: false schema: type: string enum: - up - down - both default: both description: Which way to walk. example: both - name: depth in: query required: false schema: type: integer minimum: 1 maximum: 5 default: 1 description: Ancestor chain depth. - name: include_siblings in: query required: false schema: type: boolean default: false description: Include entities sharing the same direct parent. - name: limit in: query required: false schema: type: integer minimum: 1 maximum: 50 default: 25 description: Children to return. responses: '200': description: >- `entity`, `hierarchy` (or null), `coverage` and `meta` — the latter carrying the GLEIF attribution, the consolidation disclaimer verbatim, and `time_semantics`. content: application/json: schema: type: object '400': description: >- Invalid parameter — `code` is one of INVALID_LEI, INVALID_ENUM, INVALID_LIMIT or FILTER_REQUIRED, with `details.accepted_values` where an enum was rejected. '403': description: PLAN_REQUIRED — the caller's plan lacks `can_use_gleif`. '404': description: >- ENTITY_NOT_FOUND — the reference did not resolve, or the LEI is not in the index we serve. security: - ApiKeyAuth: [] components: securitySchemes: ApiKeyAuth: type: http scheme: bearer bearerFormat: gdelt_sk_... description: 'GDELT Cloud API key. Send as `Authorization: Bearer gdelt_sk_...`.' ````