Pattern: Static Properties Return Objects

I often have a situation where my info needs progress beyond a simple enum.
I then create a class, with a private constructor that takes an enum, and
returns an object representing one of the enum items, but with more data.  I
expose static getters to construct and return each type of object, so that
using the class appears as if using an enum.  Is there a name for this
pattern or practice?


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