What is the difference between entity optimization for people vs companies?

Entity optimization for a person and for a company share the same logic but draw on different signal sets, so the work is sequenced differently. For a person, the anchors are a bio site marked with Person schema, a complete LinkedIn profile, authoritative bio citations across press and association content, Wikipedia where genuinely notable, and sameAs links tying them together. The emphasis is on consistency of the bio across every credible reference, since people get split or confused easily. For a company, the anchors are the corporate site with Organization schema, an accurate Wikidata entry, Wikipedia where notable, business references like Crunchbase and Bloomberg, and consistent corporate descriptions across directories and press. Companies more often need Wikidata and structured business-directory work; people more often need bio consistency and disambiguation. In both cases the goal is the same – high entity confidence and accurate resolution – but the checklist differs, and we scope the entity layer to the kind of entity we are building.