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# disambiguatingDescription

#### Thing > Property > description > disambiguatingDescription

A sub property of description. 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.
Usage: Fewer than 10 domains
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Values expected to be one of these types
`Text`

Used on these types
`Thing`

Super-properties
`description`

Examples
Example 1
Without Markup Microdata RDFa JSON-LD

    George Bush, the 41st President of the United States is the father of George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States.

    <div itemscope itemtype="http://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="http://schema.org/Person">
        <span itemprop="name">George W. Bush</span>, the
        <span itemprop="disambiguatingDescription">43rd President of the United States</span>.
      </div>
    </div>

    <div vocab="http://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>

    <script type="application/ld+json">
    {
      "@context": "http://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>

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