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GS1 Company Prefix
codes for a company or organisation, used in GS1 identifiers: GTIN, GLN, GRAI, etc (barcodes and RFID)

Associated item	GS1 (Q731100)
Data type	External identifier
Domain	Companies or Organisations using GS1 barcodes for their products (note: this should be moved to the property statements)
Allowed values	According to this template: Numbers of variable length, including the 3 digits GS1 country code According to statements in the property: \d{6,11} When possible, data should only be stored as statements
Example	Google (Q95) → 08653210001 081391702 081157101 0891140002 0854448003 08427761 Carrefour (Q217599) → 302047 302182 37004707 376024694
Source	https://gepir.gs1.org https://dh.gs1us.org/GEPIR/home
See also	GS1 country code (P3067), ISBN publisher prefix (P3035)
Lists	Items with the most statements of this property Count of items by number of statements (chart) Items with the most statements Items with the fewest statements Count of items by number of sitelinks (chart) Items with the most sitelinks Items with the most sitelinks, but no link to one Wikipedia (sample: Welsh Wikipedia, cywiki) Items with the fewest sitelinks Most linked wikis Items with the most identifier properties Items with no other external identifier Items with no other statements Most recently created items Items with novalue claims Items with unknown value claims Usage history (total) Usage history (main statement) Database reports/Constraint violations/P3193 Map Random list
Proposal discussion	Proposal discussion
Current uses	Total 41 Main statement 31 75.6% of uses Qualifier 10 24.4% of uses
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Format “\d{6,11}”: value must be formatted using this pattern (PCRE syntax). (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/P3193#Format, 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/P3193#Entity types

Label required in languages: en: Entities using this property should have labels in one of the following languages: en (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/P3193#Label in 'en' language, search, SPARQL

Number of digits

• As per GS1 France: "Code attribué par GS1 France qui comporte 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 ou 11 chiffres selon les besoins de codification de l’entreprise." --Teolemon (talk) 11:49, 22 September 2016 (UTC)

Split in Two Props

@Teolemon, Pigsonthewing, Fnielsen, AVRS, ArthurPSmith:

Source/Website: I cannot find a search on https://gtin.info, but you can search (with some limitations) at https://gepir.gs1.org

The property focuses on GS1 identifier prefixes:

• (alias) "GS1 Company Prefix"
• (descr) "codes for a company or organisation, used in GS1 identifiers: GTIN, GLN, GRAI, etc (barcodes and RFID)"
• (discussion) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/GS1_Manufacturer_code says "codes for a company or organisation, used in GS1 barcodes... Numbers of variable length, including the 3 digits GS1 country code"

I did some experiments with Carrefour (Q217599) → 302047, 302182, 37004707, 376024694 (and added them to "property example").

There are 2 problems with prefixes:

• You can't search by prefix in GEPIR. It complains of a wrong checksum, then "corrects" the last digit, and still doesn't find anything.
• GLN applies to a company directly (as well as its branches and warehouses), so how would you record the GLN of the company?
  • (To understand better the different kind of GS1 (TDS) identifiers, see https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19lseUd1kHiz48VNtrHXy6kafLTlNzS1GsaYiBqdT4UA/edit#gid=0. I'm working with GS1 on EPCIS 2.0 semantics and made that table.)

Search for "Carrefour" at https://gepir.gs1.org/index.php/search-by-party-name (unfortunately you have to pick "country: France" first) and you find:

Co. Prefix	Key Licensee GLN	Co. Name	City	State	Province
	3020470000000	INTERDIS-GROUPE CARREFOUR	MASSY
37004707	3700470700000	EARL DU CARREFOUR	SAUMUR
37011121	3701112100011	CARREFOUR POUR L'INSERTION ET LE DEVELOPPEMENT DES	LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
	3021820000008	INTERDIS-GROUPE CARREFOUR	MONDEVILLE
3770008885	3770008885011	37 CARREFOUR DES SAVEURS	BALLAN MIRE

(Unfortunately I wasn't able to make a direct access URL).

As you can see:

• Not all the Carrefour prefixes listed as examples can be found in France "Carrefour". Teolemon, are these associated to French "Carrefour" companies?
• Not every GLN has an associated prefix.
• In the 3 cases above the GLN uses the same Company Prefix (used for GTIN).
  • But that's not always the case. Eg if you search for US "Google", you find this:
  • Only one of the prefixes (given in the example: "08653210001") corresponds to the GLN, the others do not

Co. Prefix	Key Licensee GLN	Co. Name	City	State	Province
0854448003	0865321000104	Google LLC	MOUNTAIN VIEW	CA
081157101	0865321000104	Google LLC	MOUNTAIN VIEW	CA
08653210001	0865321000104	Google LLC	MOUNTAIN VIEW	CA
0891140002	0865321000104	Google LLC	MOUNTAIN VIEW	CA
08427761	0865321000104	Google LLC	MOUNTAIN VIEW	CA
081003729	0865321000104	Google LLC	MOUNTAIN VIEW	CA
081002993	0865321000104	Google LLC	MOUNTAIN VIEW	CA
081002873	0865321000104	Google LLC	MOUNTAIN VIEW	CA
0193575	0865321000104	Google LLC	MOUNTAIN VIEW	CA
08402447	0865321000104	Google LLC	MOUNTAIN VIEW	CA

Therefore I propose to rename this to "GS1 Company Prefix" (as GS1 doesn't have a term "Manufacturer code") and to split off a new property "GLN": Wikidata:Property_proposal/GLN Do you agree?

Also Teolemon, where did you find evidence that the Company Prefixes is used for things other than GTIN? Let's add it to the prop info.

--Vladimir Alexiev (talk) 14:58, 13 August 2021 (UTC)