# `entity_name_differs_from_address_organization`: the registered name and the organisation on the address are not the same name

The legal name the register carries and the organisation written on the postal address do not match once both are normalised.

- Appears in: `flag`
- Billing: Free. The consistency analysis is arithmetic over answers already paid for and never costs a credit of its own.

The comparison is a normalised exact match and nothing more: both sides are folded to their letters and digits and compared as strings. Case, accents (Société and Societe fold together), an ampersand against the word "and", apostrophes, full stops in initials, and company-form words such as limited, ltd, plc, llp and inc are all taken out first, so a difference here is a difference in the name rather than in how it was typed. There is no similarity score, because no threshold honestly decides whether two names are one company — Acme Group and Acme Holdings are reported as different, and both sides are quoted so you can judge.

So this flag says the two names are not the same name. It does not say the address belongs to somebody else: a trading name, a brand, a subsidiary, a registered-office agent and a recent renaming all produce it. Both sides are quoted so you can settle it yourself.

A name that folds away to nothing — an organisation line reading only "Ltd" — withholds the comparison as a missing value rather than reporting a difference.

**What to do.** Read both names. Where the difference matters, ask for the name as it is registered rather than as it is traded.

```json
{
    "comparison": "entity_address_organization",
    "left": {
        "signal": "entity",
        "field": "name",
        "value": "ACME HOLDINGS LIMITED"
    },
    "right": {
        "signal": "address",
        "field": "organization",
        "value": "Acme Group"
    },
    "result": "differ",
    "flag": "entity_name_differs_from_address_organization"
}
```

Reference: https://spaw.co/docs/reasons/entity_name_differs_from_address_organization