# How to definitively identify company officers across snapshot (Prod195) and streaming api data?

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Not from Companies House and I can’t provide anything helpful - just to echo your issue is known and not new. Indeed, there have been such notes and queries pretty much since the inception of this API. From 2019 for example:

> [@The need for better identifiers - discuss!](https://forum.aws.chdev.org/t/the-need-for-better-identifiers-discuss/2150):
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> This may be a matter for legislation before it can work, but the registry is badly in need of a unique identifier for officers (as there is for companies) to unify all the filings relating to each human. If you search, for example, for officers named as follows: You will get at least 91 different identifiers for that name, nearly all at the same address in E18 and all born in July 1982. It makes it very hard to see the extent of one individual’s directorships across the UK. If you make an ass…

As far as I’m aware similar issues apply both _within_ some other datasets (e.g. certainly PSCs) and _between_ all the “people” datasets - Officers (presumably “Officer appointments” - which a company Officers record just references - hence multiple “the same person” entries within a Company?), PSCs and Disqualified Officers.

Good luck.

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