TypeData for May 2026

Role

Estimated domains

1K - 10K

Description

Represents additional information about a relationship or property. For example a Role can be used to say that a 'member' role linking some SportsTeam to a player occurred during a particular time period. Or that a Person's 'actor' role in a Movie was for some particular characterName. Such properties can be attached to a Role entity, which is then associated with the main entities using ordinary properties like 'member' or 'actor'.\n\nSee also [blog post](https://blog.schema.org/2014/06/16/introducing-role/).

Definition from the Schema.org vocabulary (English).

Trend over time

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Properties

Properties this type accepts, including inherited ones.

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PropertySchema typeData typeEnumeration

Properties from Role

4 properties

Property
endDate100K - 1M
Expected type
Date DateTime
Property
namedPosition< 1K
Expected type
Text URL
Property
roleName1K - 10K
Expected type
Text URL
Property
startDate100K - 1M
Expected type
Date DateTime

Properties from Thing

13 properties

Property
additionalType100K - 1M
Expected type
Text URL
Property
alternateName1M - 10M
Expected type
Text
Property
description10M+
Expected type
Text TextObject
Property
disambiguatingDescription10K - 100K
Expected type
Text
Property
identifier100K - 1M
Expected type
PropertyValue Text URL
Property
image10M+
Expected type
ImageObjectG URL
Property
mainEntityOfPage10M+
Expected type
CreativeWork URL
Property
name10M+
Expected type
Text
Property
owner1K - 10K
Expected type
OrganizationG PersonG
Property
potentialAction10M+
Expected type
Action
Property
sameAs10M+
Expected type
URL
Property
subjectOf100K - 1M
Expected type
CreativeWork EventG
Property
url10M+
Expected type
URL

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