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mainEntity

A property identifying the primary entity described by a page or creative work.

What mainEntity means

Overusing it for several unrelated nodes defeats the disambiguation it is meant to provide.

Related terms in Linked data and entities

The RDF and JSON-LD machinery behind structured data, and the schema.org types a business page actually needs.

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Questions about mainEntity

What is mainEntity?

A property identifying the primary entity described by a page or creative work.

Which area of the glossary does mainEntity belong to?

Linked data and entities: The RDF and JSON-LD machinery behind structured data, and the schema.org types a business page actually needs.

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