Class Details

Parent Classes

http://schema.org/Thing

Direct Subclasses

Properties

Properties for Thing and its parent classes.

Property	Expected Type	Description
Properties of Thing
name	Text	The name of the item.
additionalType	Class	An additional type for the item, typically used for adding more specific types from external vocabularies in microdata syntax.
description	Text	A short description of the item.
image	URL or CreativeWork	An image of the item.
mainEntityOfPage	URL or CreativeWork	Indicates a page (or other CreativeWork) for which this thing is the main entity being described.
sameAs	URL	URL of a reference Web page that unambiguously indicates the item's identity. E.g. the URL of the item's Wikipedia page, Freebase page, or official website.
uri	URL	URL of the item.

API Access

Access this class through the API

Endpoint:

/api/schema/class/Thing

Available formats:

Example usage:

curl -H "Accept: application/json" /api/schema/class/Thing

Examples

Implementation Examples

Below are examples of how to implement the Thing class in different formats.

{
  "@context": {
    "oer": "http://oerschema.org/",
    "schema": "http://schema.org/"
  },
  "@type": "oer:Thing",
  "oer:name": "Sample Name",
  "oer:additionalType": "Sample value",
  "oer:description": "This is a sample description for the resource."
}