sameAs

Also: sameAs property

A schema.org property linking an entity to its canonical reference on another platform (Wikidata, LinkedIn, GitHub, X). Treated by Google and AI engines as the primary disambiguation signal for the entity graph.

Canonical reference: schema.org/sameAs

Related terms

  • Entity graph

    A network of named entities (people, organizations, products, concepts) and their relationships, as represented by a search engine or AI system. Built from structured data, sameAs cross-references, and corpus co-occurrence.

  • Schema markup

    Structured-data annotation (typically JSON-LD) that describes a page's entities, types, and relationships for search engines. The vocabulary is defined by Schema.org and consumed by Google, Bing, and the retrieval pipelines behind AI search engines.