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A short description of the item used to disambiguate from other, similar items. Information from other properties (in particular, name) may be necessary for the description to be useful for disambiguation.</div> </div> <!-- infoblock --> <div class="jumptarget" id="values" title="Values"> <h3>Values expected to be one of these types</h3> <code><ul> <li> <a href="/Text" class="core" title="Text">Text</a></li> </code></ul> </div> <div class="jumptarget" id="types" title="Used on"> <h3>Used on these types</h3> <code><ul> <li> <a href="/Thing" class="core" title="Thing">Thing</a></li> </code></ul> </div> <!-- List subtypes/subproperties --> <!-- List subs (Subtypes/subproperties/enumeration members/etc.) for Term --> <!-- list supersedes and superseded references --> <!-- list source references and acknowledgements --> <!-- list examples --> <!-- Examples block for term: disambiguatingDescription--> <div id="examplespannel" class="jumptarget" title="Examples"> <h3>Examples</h3> <div class="example-head"> <button class="clip clipbutton eg-0212" data-clipboard-target=".ds-tab.selected.eg-0212 .clipsource" title="Copy example to clipboard"> <img src="/docs/clipboard/clippy.svg" width="18" alt="Copy to clipboard" /> </button> <a id="eg-0212" title="Link: #eg-0212" href="#eg-0212" class="clickableAnchor" >Example 1</a> <div class="tooltip"> <span class="tooltiptext eg-0212">Copied</span> </div> </div> <div class='ds-selector-tabs ds-selector'> <div class='selectors'> <a data-selects='original_html' class='selected'>No Markup</a> <a data-selects='microdata' class=''>Microdata</a> <a data-selects='rdfa' class=''>RDFa</a> <a data-selects='jsonld' class=''>JSON-LD</a> <a data-selects='structure' class='extabs'>Structure</a> </div> <div class="ds-tab eg-0212 original_html selected"> <div class="ds-tab-note" >Example notes or example HTML without markup.</div> <pre class="ds-tab-content prettyprint lang-html linenums clipsource "> George Bush, the 41st President of the United States is the father of George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States. </pre> </div> <div class="ds-tab eg-0212 microdata "> <div class="ds-tab-note" >Example encoded as <a class="ds-tab-note" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microdata_(HTML)">Microdata</a> embedded in HTML.</div> <pre class="ds-tab-content prettyprint lang-html linenums clipsource "> <div itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"> <span itemprop="name">George Bush</span>, the <span itemprop="disambiguatingDescription">41st President of the United States</span> is the father of <div itemprop="children" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"> <span itemprop="name">George W. Bush</span>, the <span itemprop="disambiguatingDescription">43rd President of the United States</span>. </div> </div> </pre> </div> <div class="ds-tab eg-0212 rdfa "> <div class="ds-tab-note" >Example encoded as <a class="ds-tab-note" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDFa">RDFa</a> embedded in HTML.</div> <pre class="ds-tab-content prettyprint lang-html linenums clipsource "> <div vocab="https://schema.org/" typeof="Person"> <span property="name">George Bush</span>, the <span property="disambiguatingDescription">41st President of the United States</span> is the father of <div property="children" typeof="Person"> <span property="name">George W. Bush</span>, the <span property="disambiguatingDescription">43rd President of the United States</span>. </div> </div> </pre> </div> <div class="ds-tab eg-0212 jsonld "> <div class="ds-tab-note" >Example encoded as <a class="ds-tab-note" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON-LD">JSON-LD</a> in a HTML script tag.</div> <pre class="ds-tab-content prettyprint lang-html linenums clipsource "> <script type="application/ld+json"> { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Person", "name": "George Bush", "disambiguatingDescription": "41st President of the United States", "children": { "@type": "Person", "name": "George W. Bush", "disambiguatingDescription": "43rd President of the United States" } } </script> </pre> </div> <div class="ds-tab eg-0212 structure extabs" data-ex="eg-0212"> <div class="ds-tab-note" >Structured representation of the JSON-LD example.</div> <div class="ds-tab-content structureout extabs eg-0212" style="margin-left: 5px;"> </div> <div class="structuretext clipsource extabs eg-0212"></div> </div> <div class="payload eg-0212" style="display: none;">{ "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Person", "name": "George Bush", "disambiguatingDescription": "41st President of the United States", "children": { "@type": "Person", "name": "George W. Bush", "disambiguatingDescription": "43rd President of the United States" } }</div> </div> </div> </div> <!-- mainContent --> <!-- Footer start from PageFooter.j2 --> <div id="footer"> <p><a href="/docs/terms.html">Terms and conditions</a></p> <div id="versioninfo"> <span class="sep">•</span> Schema.org <span class="sep">•</span> V28.1 <span class="sep">|</span> 2024-11-22 </div> </div> <script> (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){ (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o), m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m) })(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga'); ga('create', 'UA-52672119-1', 'auto'); ga('send', 'pageview'); </script> <!-- Footer end from PageFooter.j2 --> <script type="application/ld+json"> { "@context": { "brick": "https://brickschema.org/schema/Brick#", "csvw": "http://www.w3.org/ns/csvw#", "dc": "http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/", "dcam": "http://purl.org/dc/dcam/", "dcat": "http://www.w3.org/ns/dcat#", "dcmitype": "http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/", "dcterms": "http://purl.org/dc/terms/", "doap": "http://usefulinc.com/ns/doap#", "foaf": "http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/", "odrl": "http://www.w3.org/ns/odrl/2/", "org": "http://www.w3.org/ns/org#", "owl": "http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#", "prof": "http://www.w3.org/ns/dx/prof/", "prov": "http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#", "qb": "http://purl.org/linked-data/cube#", "rdf": "http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#", "rdfs": "http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#", "schema": "https://schema.org/", "sh": "http://www.w3.org/ns/shacl#", "skos": "http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#", "sosa": "http://www.w3.org/ns/sosa/", "ssn": "http://www.w3.org/ns/ssn/", "time": "http://www.w3.org/2006/time#", "vann": "http://purl.org/vocab/vann/", "void": "http://rdfs.org/ns/void#", "xsd": "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#" }, "@graph": [ { "@id": "schema:description", "@type": "rdf:Property", "owl:equivalentProperty": { "@id": "dcterms:description" }, "rdfs:comment": "A description of the item.", "rdfs:label": "description", "schema:domainIncludes": { "@id": "schema:Thing" }, "schema:rangeIncludes": [ { "@id": "schema:Text" }, { "@id": "schema:TextObject" } ] }, { "@id": "schema:disambiguatingDescription", "@type": "rdf:Property", "rdfs:comment": "A sub property of description. 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