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This type describes different kinds of fictional organizations (or, more properly, organizations that appear in works of fiction). One of its functions is to allow for the grouping of organizations by varieties (e.g. so that someone can find a list of airlines that appear in fiction or the like),...
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| x Ankh-Morpork City Guild | Ankh-Morpork Assassins' Guild | ||
| Ankh-Morpork Thieves' Guild | |||
| Ankh-Morpork Beggars' Guild | |||
| x Hogwarts houses |
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Hufflepuff House |
The following fictional characters are staff members and denizens of Hogwarts in the Harry Potter books written by J. K. Rowling. The characters of Albus Dumbledore, Severus Snape and Rubeus Hagrid have their own articles. Dolores Umbridge is listed...
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| Slytherin House | |||
| Ravenclaw House | |||
| Gryffindor House | |||
| x Military organization |
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Ender's Jeesh |
A military organization is a way of structuring the armed forces of a state so as to offer military capability required by the national defence policy. In some countries paramilitary forces are included in a nation's armed forces. Armed forces that...
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| United States Army | |||
| Kingsguard | |||
| Night’s Watch | |||
| Stargate Command | |||
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| x Archive |
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Vatican Secret Archives |
An archive is a collection of historical records, and the location in which the collection is kept. Archives contain records (primary source documents) which have accumulated over the course of an individual or organization's lifetime.
In general,...
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| Jedi Archives | |||
| Central Registry of Births, Marriages and Deaths | |||
| x Civil registry | Central Registry of Births, Marriages and Deaths |
A civil registry or population registry is a repository or database maintained by a state listing vital statistics about all of its citizens and residents. There is a legal requirement to notify the relevant authority of any life event which affects...
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| x Monastic | Jedi | ||
| x Knight |
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Jedi |
A knight was a "gentleman soldier" or member of the warrior class of the Middle Ages in Europe. In other Indo-European languages, cognates of cavalier or rider are more prevalent (eg French chevalier and German Ritter) suggesting a connection to the...
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| x Federation |
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United Federation of Planets |
A federation (Latin: foedus, foederis, 'covenant'), also known as a federal state, is a type of sovereign state characterized by a union of partially self-governing states or regions united by a central (federal) government. In a federation, the...
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| x Federal republic | United Federations |
A federal republic is a federation of states with a republican form of government. A federation is the central government. The states in a federation also maintain the federation. Usage of the term republic is inconsistent but, as a minimum, it...
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| x Corporation |
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Tyrell Corporation |
A corporation is a legal entity separate from the shareholders and employees. In British tradition it is the term designating a body corporate, where it can be either a corporation sole (an office held by an individual natural person, which is a...
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| Sirius Cybernetics Corporation | |||
| Percy Nilegård AB | |||
| Weyland-Yutani | |||
| x Noble House | House Lannister |
A clan-based association of nobles.
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| House Atreides | |||
| House Stark | |||
| House Arryn | |||
| House Harkonnen | |||
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| x Ministry | Ministry of Truth |
A ministry is a specialised organisation responsible for a sector of government public administration, sometimes led by a minister, but usually a senior public servant, that can have responsibility for one or more departments, agencies, bureaus,...
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| x Company | M & M Enterprises |
A company is a form of business organization.
In the United States, a company is a corporation—or, less commonly, an association, partnership, or union—that carries on an industrial enterprise." Generally, a company may be a "corporation,...
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| Taggart Transcontinental | |||
| x Village |
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Hidden Leaf Village |
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet, but smaller than a town or city. Though often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in...
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| x Organized crime |
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The Girls of Old Town |
Organized crime or criminal organizations is a transnational grouping of highly centralized enterprises run by criminals for the purpose of engaging in illegal activity, most commonly for the purpose of generating a monetary profit. The Organized...
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| x Political party |
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Friends of Global Progress |
A political party is a political organization that seeks to attain and maintain political power within government, usually by participating in electoral campaigns. Parties often espouse an expressed ideology or vision bolstered by a written platform...
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| x Guild |
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A guild is an association of craftsmen in a particular trade.
The earliest guilds were formed as confraternities of workers. They were organized in a manner something between a trade union, a cartel and a secret society. They often depended on...
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| x World of Warcraft Guild | Squirrel Mafia |
A guild is an organization of players. There are many motivations and purposes to creating guilds.
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| x Transformers universes |
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The Transformers are alien robots of a popular Hasbro toy line and its spin-offs.
Transformers: G1, includes both the animated television series The Transformers and the Marvel Comics comic-book series of the same name, which is further divided into...
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| x Law firm |
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Wolfram and Hart |
A law firm is a business entity formed by one or more lawyers to engage in the practice of law. The primary service provided by a law firm is to advise clients (individuals or corporations) about their legal rights and responsibilities, and to...
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| x Private investigator |
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Angel Investigations |
A private investigator or private detective (often shortened to PI or private eye) is a person who can be hired by individuals or groups to undertake investigations. Private investigators often work for attorneys in civil cases. Many work for...
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| x Government agency |
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Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense |
A government agency is a permanent or semi-permanent organization in the machinery of government that is responsible for the oversight and administration of specific functions, such as an intelligence agency. There is a notable variety of types of...
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| x Police |
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Green Lantern Corps |
A police service is a public force empowered to enforce the law and provide security through the legitimized use of force.
The term is most commonly associated with police services of a state that are authorized to exercise the police power of that...
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| x High school |
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Sannoh Industry Affiliated High School basketball team |
High school is the name used in some parts of the world, particularly in Nicaragua, Belen and Hatillo, to describe an institution that provides all or part of secondary education. The actual term "high school" originated in Scotland with the world's...
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| Kainan University Affiliated High School basketball team | |||
| Shoyo High School basketball team | |||
| Ryonan High School basketball team | |||
| Shohoku High School basketball team | |||
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| x Terrorism |
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Quantum |
Terrorism is the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion. At present, there is no internationally agreed definition of terrorism. Common definitions of terrorism refer only to those violent acts which are intended to create fear ...
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| x Law enforcement agency |
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California Bureau of Investigation |
In North American English, a Law enforcement agency (LEA) is an organisation that enforces the law.
Outside North America, such organisations are called police services. In North America, some of these services are called police, others have other...
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| x Gang |
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Mutant Street Beatniks |
A gang is a group of people who, through the organization, formation, and establishment of an assemblage, share a common identity. In current usage it typically denotes a criminal organization or else a criminal affiliation. In early usage, the word...
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| x Airline |
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Oceanic Airlines |
An airline provides air transport services for passengers or freight, generally with a recognized operating certificate or license. Airlines lease or own their aircraft with which to supply these services and may form partnerships or alliances with...
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| x Dragonmarked house |
Dragonmarked houses are organizations in the fictional Eberron campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game that are based on bloodlines descended from families that first manifested dragonmarks. Not all members of the...
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| x Drug rehabilitation | Ennet House Drug and Alcohol Recovery House |
Drug rehabilitation (often drug rehab or just rehab) is an umbrella term for the processes of medical and/or psychotherapeutic treatment, for dependency on psychoactive substances such as alcohol, prescription drugs, and so-called street drugs such...
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| x Sports |
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Gryffindor Quidditch Team |
Sport is an activity that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often engaged in competitively. Sports commonly refer to activities where the physical capabilities of the competitor are the sole or primary determinant of the outcome (winning...
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| Slytherin Quidditch Team | |||
| x Quidditch |
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Gryffindor Quidditch Team |
Quidditch is a fictional sport developed by J. K. Rowling for the Harry Potter book series. It is described as an extremely rough but very popular semi-contact sport played by wizards and witches around the world. Matches are played between two...
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| Slytherin Quidditch Team | |||
| Hufflepuff Quidditch Team | |||
| Ravenclaw Quidditch Team | |||
| x School |
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Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry |
A school (from Greek σχολή (scholē), originally meaning "leisure", and also "that in which leisure is employed", "school"), is an institution designed to allow and encourage students (or "pupils") to learn, under the supervision of teachers. Most...
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| x Student organization | Dumbledore's Army |
A student organization is a voluntary association of students at institutions of secondary and higher education for a specific legal purpose. Such organizations are often sponsored through and receive funding from a student government.
Student...
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