(Entry was posted by Scott Clark on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 10/10/2019).

Is "sameas" schema useful beyond just social profiles?

Is "sameas" schema useful beyond just social profiles?In other words, could it help with sending knowledge graph signals to Google for, say, a large brand with multiple websites on their own domains?

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Michael Stricker: Iâ€™ve read of this use but have no specifics.
Bill Slawski: This article: https://searchengineland.com/5-ways-optimize-markup...

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Scott Clark: This is a great read and a clever deployment.
Bill Slawski: Scott Clark yes, it was very helpful
Bill Slawski: This YouTube video is about the Freebase API, and talks about Machine Identifiers (MID), and those are unique identifiers for entities. wikidata also has unique identifiers for entities, and you can use sameas with those Freebase or wikidata entities, to specify that when you mention "Boston" on a webpage, you mean the rock band Boston and not the city Boston. https://youtu.be/r-VL7NKJqcs
Scott Clark: Thanks Bill!