2022 Changelog ​

November 2022

October 2022

  • Recent Updates to the KnowledgeGraph and DQL

    Added Organization.suppliers to the graph, i.e. type:Organization suppliers.name:"Diffbot"

    Added support for non-software technologies such as:

    Added new organization industries to the graph including:

    • Real Estate > Real Estate Investment Trusts (naics: 525930)
    • Financial Services > Banks > Central Banks (naics: 521110)
    • Financial Services > Credit Unions (naics: 522130)
    • Financial Services > Money Exchange Providers (to include Foreign exchange companies, and Online remittance providers)
    • Services > Laundry Companies (naics: 812320)
    • Food > Dairy Companies (naics: 112120)
    • Food > Cocoa Companies (naics: 311351)
    • Medical Organizations > Cannabis Companies
    • Construction Companies > Landscaping Services (naics: 561730)
    • Environmental Organizations > Recyclable Material Companies (naics: 423930) (we separated Waste Organizations And Recycling Facilities into "Waste Organizations" and "Recyclable Material Companies")
    • Consumer Service Companies > Parking Companies (naics: 812930)
    • Hospitality Companies > Adult Entertainment Clubs
    • Retailers > Vending machine operators (naics: 454210)
    • Retailers > Used Merchandise Retailers (naics: 459510)
    • Educational Organizations > | Educational Institutions > K12 Schools (to check the differences with Schools and clean in case)

September 2022

August 2022

July 2022

May 2022

April 2022

  • Optimized and expanded industry classifications

    We've added a new Organization attribute "diffbotClassification" that expands industry classification to three or more levels, e.g.

    json
    "diffbotClassification": [
  {
    "level": 3,
    "isPrimary": true,
    "name": "Display Technology Companies",
    "diffbotUri": "https://diffbot.com/entity/IC_qvY0Oloiyj"
  },
  {
    "level": 2,
    "isPrimary": true,
    "name": "Computer Hardware Companies",
    "diffbotUri": "https://diffbot.com/entity/IC_D6llNR8xOo"
  },
  {
    "level": 1,
    "isPrimary": true,
    "name": "Software Companies",
    "diffbotUri": "https://diffbot.com/entity/IC_H04NbzO6L8"
  },
  ...
]

    For NAICS and SIC classifications, we nominate a "primary" classification tier in the array of matching classification codes/labels. Documentation of these fields can be found in the Ontology section of docs.diffbot.com.

March 2022

  • Added 'technographics' as an attribute of Organizations (Alpha)

    We are slowly rolling out support for 'technographics' as an attribute of Organizations. Ultimately, there will be many sources of this data and coverage across all Organizations in the graph. To start, more than 8.5Mil companies include some level of technographic data. Below is an example of how the technology is represented in the default JSON output (excerpted from the IBM entity).

    json
    "technographics": [
  {
    "technology": {
      "recordId": "EPdsrDmLiMQCskvBLp_dloQ@2275",
      "name": "React",
      "websiteUris": [
        "reactjs.org"
      ],
      "surfaceForm": "React",
      "position": "companyTechnographicsTechnology",
      "type": "DiffbotEntity"
    },
    "categories": [
    	"JavaScript frameworks"
    ]
  },
  {
  "technology": {
    "recordId": "EPdsrDmLiMQCskvBLp_dloQ@2276",
    "name": "TrustArc",
    "websiteUris": [
    	"trustarc.com"
    ],
    "surfaceForm": "TrustArc",
    "position": "companyTechnographicsTechnology",
    "type": "DiffbotEntity"
  },
  "categories": [
  	"Cookie compliance"
  ]
  },
  ...
]

    To browse organizations with technographic data, try this query:

    type:Organization has:technographics.technology.name

February 2022

  • Improved accuracy of estimated employee counts for publicly-traded, US companies

    We recently improved the accuracy of the estimate populating the 'nbEmployees' attribute for publicly-traded US organizations in the Knowledge Graph by expanding analysis of data from sec.gov reports. 70%+ of the SEC-10k documents now include nbEmployees for each reporting period.

    We also added 'secForms' as an attribute of Organizations. Below is a JSON excerpt from IBM featuring a filing from 2019:

    json
    "secForms": [
  {
    "formType": "8-K/A",
    "periodOfReport": {
      "str": "d2019-06-30",
      "precision": 3,
      "timestamp": 1561852800000
    },
    "filingDate": {
      "str": "d2019-09-20",
      "precision": 3,
      "timestamp": 1568937600000
    },
    "documentUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/51143/000155837019008675/ibm-20190709x8ka.htm",
    "filingUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/51143/000155837019008675/0001558370-19-008675-index.htm"
  },
  {
    "formType": "10-Q",
    "periodOfReport": {
      "str": "d2019-06-30",
      "precision": 3,
      "timestamp": 1561852800000
    },
    "filingDate": {
      "str": "d2019-07-30",
      "precision": 3,
      "timestamp": 1564444800000
    },
    "documentUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/51143/000155837019006560/ibm-20190630x10q.htm",
    "filingUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/51143/000155837019006560/0001558370-19-006560-index.htm"
  },
  ...
]

January 2022

  • Added "customers" as an attribute of Organizations

    We recently added sources to the Knowledge Graph that provide insights into 'service provider <> customer' relationships. The 'customer' attribute is populated for over 50k companies. Here is an example of a customer of IBM's represented in JSON:

    json
    "customers": [
  {
    "summary": "Major airline of the United States",
    "image": "https://kg.diffbot.com/image/api/get?fetch=yes&url=g%3Cj7P0St0DnBJf.x0KwLZrUn.%5B%3CR0Aa4Hh%3B%5Bv738ZqOr7U%3FivHo%3Ef%5B1_l%2F%5B9%40%3BAk%7BAt%3C%60e%5Bt%3DH%2FDk%7DO%28YpOr%29.oCJ",
    "types": [
      "Organization",
      "Corporation"
    ],
    "name": "American Airlines",
    "diffbotUri": "http://diffbot.com/entity/ECm88VZ0TMyq8glAXFBMYaA",
    "targetDiffbotUri": "http://diffbot.com/entity/ECm88VZ0TMyq8glAXFBMYaA",
    "targetDiffbotId": "ECm88VZ0TMyq8glAXFBMYaA",
    "surfaceForm": "American Airlines",
    "type": "Corporation"
  },
  {
    "summary": "Telecommunications company",
    "image": "https://kg.diffbot.com/image/api/get?fetch=yes&url=g%3Cj7P0St0DnBJf.x0KwLZrUn.%5B%3CR0Aa4Hh%3B%5Bv738ZqOr7U%3FDvsR%3EgB%7BYr3izczY2.K%7C%3E",
    "types": [
    "Organization",
    "Corporation"
    ],
    "name": "BT Italia",
    "diffbotUri": "http://diffbot.com/entity/EZK7tKHZCNGCUhTjGW7SaKg",
    "targetDiffbotUri": "http://diffbot.com/entity/EZK7tKHZCNGCUhTjGW7SaKg",
    "targetDiffbotId": "EZK7tKHZCNGCUhTjGW7SaKg",
    "surfaceForm": "BT Italia",
    "type": "Corporation"
  },
  ...
]

    We will continue to scale up coverage over time.