The core of a graph.
The core of a graph $G$ is the smallest graph $C$ such that there is a homomorphism from $G$ to $C$ and a homomorphism from $C$ to $G$.
Note that the core of a graph is not necessarily connected, see [2].

The Ore closure of a graph.
The Ore closure of a connected graph $G$ has the same vertices as $G$, and the smallest set of edges containing the edges of $G$ such that for any two vertices $u$ and $v$ whose sum of degrees is at least the number of vertices, then $(u,v)$ is also an edge.
For disconnected graphs, we compute the closure separately for each component.

The de-duplicate of a graph.
Let $G = (V, E)$ be a graph. This map yields the graph whose vertex set is the set of (distinct) neighbourhoods $\{N_v | v \in V\}$ of $G$, and has an edge $(N_a, N_b)$ between two vertices if and only if $(a, b)$ is an edge of $G$. This is well-defined, because if $N_a = N_c$ and $N_b = N_d$, then $(a, b)\in E$ if and only if $(c, d)\in E$.
The image of this map is the set of so-called 'mating graphs' or 'point-determining graphs'.
This map preserves the chromatic number.