Name

Geography Working Group
Rune Rattenborg, Sebastian Borkowski, Manuel Molina, Jamie Novotny, Susanne Rutishauser

Description

The name entity defines the lexical version of any accepted geographical proper noun. A name will typically be associated with a place, which may in turn be associated with a location.

This entity largely follows the formal outline of the name entity type employed by the Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places repository. Note that this includes historical as well as modern names.

The stable URI format for name records in Pleiades are described in more detail in the Pleiades documentation. Here, name URIs are subordinated to a single parent place record.

In the Wikidata ontology, a name may be an instance of Q82799 name, or a subordinate name with language specification, e.g. Q624240 Arabic name.

Recommended fields

name	description
transc_name	Transcription of the name
transc_ref	System of transcription used

Optional fields

Resources

• Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places is a leading historical geographical database for Classics, but also with an increasing number of records for the Middle East and adjoining regions. The database holds upwards of 35,000 place records.