> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.syntage.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Shareholders

Shareholders represent people or companies that own shares in a company. Use shareholder resources to list the shareholders connected to an entity, add manually collected shareholder information, update shareholder details, and inspect where shareholder information came from.

Shareholder relations connect a shareholder to an entity. A relation describes the direction of ownership and can include share counts or ownership percentages. Relation sources identify where the relation information came from.

| Concept           | Values                                        |
| ----------------- | --------------------------------------------- |
| Shareholder types | `physical`, `legal`, `unknown`                |
| Relation types    | `shareholders`, `shareholder_of`              |
| Source types      | `manual`, `rpc_socio`, `company_verification` |

Manual sources always take precedence over other sources. When the same relation is reported by multiple non-manual sources, the most recent update wins.

Use promotion when a shareholder should become its own entity. Promotion creates an entity for the shareholder so you can connect datasources and continue working with that person or company directly.