Wikidata:WikiProject Stanford Libraries/Describing people

These properties and guidelines are associated with entities represented by personal names.

General properties

Labels and sitelinks

Label

Enter the name by which the person is most widely known, in natural order (i.e., firstname lastname for Western languages). Examples: Annie Lennox, Anna May Wong, Elizabeth II, George Eliot. Do not enter dates or other disambiguating information as part of the label -- include it in the description instead. Neither the label nor the description need to be unique in themselves, but the combination of label and description should be unique. For more information, see Help:Label.

Description

Enter a brief description with further identifying information about the individual. A common formula combines the person's main occupation and their country of origin. Example: for Georgette Heyer, the description is "British historical romance and detective fiction novelist". Wikidata guidelines state that the description should be about two to twelve words in length, should not be a complete sentence, should begin with a lower case letter (except for cases where the word is usually capitalized, as "British" is in the example, and should not have ending punctuation. For more information, see Help:Description.

Also known as

Enter alternate names for the person, such as the full form of name for someone commonly known by a nickname, or who changed their name at some point. If the name contains diacritics, also enter a value using only ASCII. These alternate labels will be searchable along with the main label. As labels, alternate names are assigned per language. For more information, see Help:Aliases.

Sitelinks

Link to a Wikipedia article (or other Wikimedia page) that exactly corresponds to this person. The presence of a sitelink helps ensure the item meets Wikidata's notability standards. For more information, see Help:Sitelinks.

Common properties for people

Label	Identifier	Data type	Description	Example
instance of	P31	Item	Use human for real people and fictional human for fictional characters. Required.	Ada Lovelace <instance of> human
date of birth	P569	Point in time	Enter to known degree of specificity as YYYY-MM-DD. Default calendar is Gregorian, but may be changed to Julian when date is entered.	Christine de Pizan <date of birth> 1364
date of death	P570	Point in time	Enter to known degree of specificity as YYYY-MM-DD. Default calendar is Gregorian, but may be changed to Julian when date is entered.	Jane Austen <date of death> 1817-07-18
place of birth	P19	Item	Enter at the most specific level known.	Elizabeth I <place of birth> Palace of Placentia
place of death	P20	Item	Enter at the most specific level known.	Theda Bara <place of death> Los Angeles
family name	P734	Item	If person's family name is more than one word (not including prepositions forming part of the name, such as "de" or "von"), enter each part separately in the order of usage.	see example: Harriet Beecher Stowe
given name	P735	Item	If person's given name is more than one word, enter each part separately in the order of usage.	see example: Anna Magdalena Bach
ethnic group	P172	String		Sappho <name in native language> Σαπφώ; Language: Ancient Greek
work location	P937	String		George Eliot <pseudonym> George Eliot
sex or gender	P21	Item	The sex or gender a person identifies as.	See the property page for a list of sex and gender terms in use in Wikidata
occupation	P106	Item	An activity the person engages in, whether in a career context or more generally.	Aphra Behn <occupation> writer

(see all properties for people)

Selected person identifiers

Label	Identifier	Data type	Description	Example
Library of Congress authority ID	P244	External identifier	An identifier from an LC authority.	Emily Dickinson <<Library of Congress authority ID>> n79054166
ORCID iD	P496	External identifier
ISNI	P213	External identifier
VIAF ID	P214	External identifier
ULAN ID	P245	External identifier
IMDb ID	P345	External identifier

(see all person identifiers)

Properties related to names

Label	Identifier	Data type	Description	Example
art-name	P1787	String
birth name	P1477	String
courtesy name	P1782	String
family name	P734	Item
given name	P735	Item
married name	P2562	String
middle family name	P6978	Item
name	P2561	String
name in kana	P1814	String
name in native language	P1559	String
nickname	P1449	String
official name	P1448	String
patronym or matronym for this person	P5056	Item
posthumous name	P1786	String
pseudonym	P742	String
religious name	P1635	Item
Roman agnomen	P2366	Item
Roman cognomen	P2365	Item
Roman nomen gentilicium	P2359	Item
Roman praenomen	P2358	Item
second family name in Spanish name	P1950	Item
short name	P1813	String
temple name	P1785	String
vocalized name	P4239	String

Properties for specific groups of people

Properties for describing faculty and researchers

Label	Identifier	Data type	Description	Example value
employer	P108	Item	An institution employing the person.	Stanford University (Q41506)
work location	P937	Item	The geographic location of where the person is employed.	Stanford (Q173813)
field of work	P101	Item	The person's area of study.	All academic disciplines in Wikidata
educated at	P69	Item	Where the person was educated, at any level.
academic degree	P512	Item	A graduate or undergraduate degree the person has received.	bachelor's degree (Q163727), master's degree (Q183816), doctorate (Q849697) (also more specific items for MFA, etc.). Often entered as qualifier for educated at (P69), sometimes with date received and/or academic thesis (P1026).
doctoral thesis	P1026	Item	An item representing the person's doctoral dissertation.
doctoral advisor	P185	Item	The primary advisor of the person's doctoral dissertation.
doctoral student	P185	Item	A student for which the person was the primary advisor on the student's doctoral dissertation.
student of	P1066	Item	A teacher under whom the person studied.
student	P802	Item	A student that studied under the person.
occupation	P106	Item	An activity the person engages in, whether in a career context or more generally.	university teacher (Q1622272), researcher (Q1650915)
professorship	P803	Item	The name of a professorship held by the person.	ex. Donald Kennedy Chair in the School of Humanities and Sciences (Q66425230)
position held	P39	Item	A public office or similar position held by the person.	ex. Donald Kennedy Chair in the School of Humanities and Sciences (Q66425230)
affiliation	P1416	Item	An organization or group with which the person is affiliated.	ex. Frydman Lab (Q66425224)
member of	P463	Item	An organization or group of which the person is a member.	ex. Stanford Cancer Institute (Q43080767)
notable work	P800	Item	A notable book, article, or other work by the person.
influenced by	P737	Item	An individual, group, or idea that influenced the person.
official website	P856	URL	The official website for a person.	ex. https://profiles.stanford.edu/judith-frydman

Qualifiers for statements related to awards a person has received or been nominated for

Use with award received (P166) and nominated for (P1411).

Qualifier	Data type	Description	Example value
point in time (P585)	date	The year in which the award was bestowed.
together with (P1706)	item	A co-recipient of an award granted jointly for the same achievement.
prize money (P2121)	number + unit	The amount of the money prize the recipient received with the award. (Used primarily for Nobel Prizes.)
award rationale (P6208)	text	A brief description of the reason for the award being granted.
for work (P1686)	item	A specific work for which the person received the award.
field of work (P101)	item	The area of activity for which the person received the award.
image (P18)	image	An image of the person with the award.
conferred by (P1027)	item	The person or group conferring the award in this particular case. Use only if the award is conferred by different people or organizations in different contexts; otherwise this should be a property of the award itself.