Use one authority record per real person or organization. Source-specific roles and credit order belong in Source Contributions.
Identity
Canonical identity
Record the preferred public name and normalized Sort Name. For people, separate given, middle, family, and suffix fields when known.
Disambiguation
Record affiliations, dates, pseudonyms, similarly named people, or other details needed to prevent mistaken identity.
Authority summary
Historic whiskey enterprise whose Tennessee site, out-of-state operations, corporate ownership, warehouse certificates, and inventory must be tracked as distinct continuity dimensions.
Verification note
Organization record is separated from Lem Motlow's personal authority record. ORCID does not apply.