Classifications/Entity

Thing

A broad tangible or conceptual thing with a name and description.

Entity schema.org/Thing thing

Fields

1 required · 2 recommended. Every field points at its schema.org property — the definition lives in one place, so nothing drifts. The full inherited superset stays available through @0xintuition/schema-org.

FieldTypeDescription
name string required The name of the thing. schema.org/name
description string optional A short description of the thing. schema.org/description
sameAs string[] optional Canonical URLs that identify the same thing. schema.org/sameAs

The canonical shape

What a Thing atom's data looks like. These exact bytes are what calculateAtomId hashes — shared shape is shared identity.

atom data · canonical JSON-LD
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org/",
  "@type": "Thing",
  "name": "Apple",
  "description": "A round fruit with red or green skin.",
  "sameAs": [
    "https://example.com/canonical"
  ]
}
build one
import { buildAtomData } from "@0xintuition/classifications";
import { calculateAtomId } from "@0xintuition/ids";

const atomData = buildAtomData("thing", {
	name: "Apple",
	description: "A round fruit with red or green skin.",
});

// deterministic — same bytes, same ID, offchain and on
const atomId = calculateAtomId(atomData);

What a Thing can say

The recommended triple vocabulary for this classification — each row is a claim shape the graph already understands, with the kind of atom expected on the other end.

Thing — same as → another Thing enshrined
Thing — url → url value enshrined
Thing — imgUrl → url value enshrined
Thing — has description → string value enshrined

Enrichment

Paste a bare reference and the enrichment engine fills a Thing in from its sources (default pipeline: thing) — titles, canonical sameAs URLs, and the fields above, merged onto the same deterministic atom.