DefinedTerm

The schema.org type for a term that has its own identity, used inside knowsAbout so that a claimed subject carries a sameAs to a public identifier instead of sitting there as a bare string. It gives a resolver something to match against Wikidata or a vocabulary. It is a claim about a subject, not about the organisation: a DefinedTerm pointing at a real Wikidata item does not corroborate the organisation's own identity, and a scanner that counts it as an unreciprocated sameAs on the business is reading the wrong node.

Terms this definition uses

knowsAbout · Subject · sameAs · Wikidata · reciprocated sameAs

Entities and schema

Declaring who you are in a form a resolver can use without guessing.

structured data · JSON-LD · stable @id · entity collision · reciprocated sameAs · sameAs · knowledge graph · entity resolution · entity disambiguation · Wikidata · NAP · local citation · Organization schema · LocalBusiness · FAQPage · structured data validation · @context · agentic knowledge graph · microformats (h-card) · RDF · triple · dangling @id · RDFa and Microdata · founder edge · foundingDate · knowsAbout · unreciprocated profile · entity graph · Person schema · named entity recognition

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