Answer

An answer offered to a question; perhaps correct, perhaps opinionated or wrong.

Usage: Between 1000 and 10,000 domains

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Property	Expected Type	Description
Properties from Comment
`downvoteCount`	Integer	The number of downvotes this question, answer or comment has received from the community.
`parentItem`	Question	The parent of a question, answer or item in general.
`upvoteCount`	Integer	The number of upvotes this question, answer or comment has received from the community.
Properties from CreativeWork
`about`	Thing	The subject matter of the content.
`accessibilityAPI`	Text	Indicates that the resource is compatible with the referenced accessibility API (WebSchemas wiki lists possible values).
`accessibilityControl`	Text	Identifies input methods that are sufficient to fully control the described resource (WebSchemas wiki lists possible values).
`accessibilityFeature`	Text	Content features of the resource, such as accessible media, alternatives and supported enhancements for accessibility (WebSchemas wiki lists possible values).
`accessibilityHazard`	Text	A characteristic of the described resource that is physiologically dangerous to some users. Related to WCAG 2.0 guideline 2.3 (WebSchemas wiki lists possible values).
`accountablePerson`	Person	Specifies the Person that is legally accountable for the CreativeWork.
`aggregateRating`	AggregateRating	The overall rating, based on a collection of reviews or ratings, of the item.
`alternativeHeadline`	Text	A secondary title of the CreativeWork.
`associatedMedia`	MediaObject	A media object that encodes this CreativeWork. This property is a synonym for encoding.
`audience`	Audience	An intended audience, i.e. a group for whom something was created. Supersedes serviceAudience.
`audio`	AudioObject	An embedded audio object.
`author`	Organization or Person	The author of this content. Please note that author is special in that HTML 5 provides a special mechanism for indicating authorship via the rel tag. That is equivalent to this and may be used interchangeably.
`award`	Text	An award won by or for this item. Supersedes awards.
`character`	Person	Fictional person connected with a creative work.
`citation`	CreativeWork or Text	A citation or reference to another creative work, such as another publication, web page, scholarly article, etc.
`comment`	Comment	Comments, typically from users.
`commentCount`	Integer	The number of comments this CreativeWork (e.g. Article, Question or Answer) has received. This is most applicable to works published in Web sites with commenting system; additional comments may exist elsewhere.
`contentLocation`	Place	The location depicted or described in the content. For example, the location in a photograph or painting.
`contentRating`	Text	Official rating of a piece of content—for example,'MPAA PG-13'.
`contributor`	Organization or Person	A secondary contributor to the CreativeWork.
`copyrightHolder`	Organization or Person	The party holding the legal copyright to the CreativeWork.
`copyrightYear`	Number	The year during which the claimed copyright for the CreativeWork was first asserted.
`creator`	Organization or Person	The creator/author of this CreativeWork. This is the same as the Author property for CreativeWork.
`dateCreated`	Date	The date on which the CreativeWork was created.
`dateModified`	Date	The date on which the CreativeWork was most recently modified.
`datePublished`	Date	Date of first broadcast/publication.
`discussionUrl`	URL	A link to the page containing the comments of the CreativeWork.
`editor`	Person	Specifies the Person who edited the CreativeWork.
`educationalAlignment`	AlignmentObject	An alignment to an established educational framework.
`educationalUse`	Text	The purpose of a work in the context of education; for example, 'assignment', 'group work'.
`encoding`	MediaObject	A media object that encodes this CreativeWork. This property is a synonym for associatedMedia. Supersedes encodings.
`exampleOfWork`	CreativeWork	A creative work that this work is an example/instance/realization/derivation of. Inverse property: workExample.
`genre`	Text	Genre of the creative work or group.
`hasPart`	CreativeWork	Indicates a CreativeWork that is (in some sense) a part of this CreativeWork. Inverse property: isPartOf.
`headline`	Text	Headline of the article.
`inLanguage`	Text or Language	The language of the content or performance or used in an action. Please use one of the language codes from the IETF BCP 47 standard. Supersedes language.
`interactionCount`	Text	A count of a specific user interactions with this item—for example, `20 UserLikes`, `5 UserComments`, or `300 UserDownloads`. The user interaction type should be one of the sub types of UserInteraction.
`interactivityType`	Text	The predominant mode of learning supported by the learning resource. Acceptable values are 'active', 'expositive', or 'mixed'.
`isBasedOnUrl`	URL	A resource that was used in the creation of this resource. This term can be repeated for multiple sources. For example, http://example.com/great-multiplication-intro.html.
`isFamilyFriendly`	Boolean	Indicates whether this content is family friendly.
`isPartOf`	CreativeWork	Indicates a CreativeWork that this CreativeWork is (in some sense) part of. Inverse property: hasPart.
`keywords`	Text	Keywords or tags used to describe this content. Multiple entries in a keywords list are typically delimited by commas.
`learningResourceType`	Text	The predominant type or kind characterizing the learning resource. For example, 'presentation', 'handout'.
`license`	URL or CreativeWork	A license document that applies to this content, typically indicated by URL.
`mainEntity`	Thing	Indicates the primary entity described in some page or other CreativeWork. Inverse property: mainEntityOfPage.
`mentions`	Thing	Indicates that the CreativeWork contains a reference to, but is not necessarily about a concept.
`offers`	Offer	An offer to provide this item—for example, an offer to sell a product, rent the DVD of a movie, or give away tickets to an event.
`position`	Text or Integer	The position of an item in a series or sequence of items.
`producer`	Organization or Person	The person or organization who produced the work (e.g. music album, movie, tv/radio series etc.).
`provider`	Organization or Person	The service provider, service operator, or service performer; the goods producer. Another party (a seller) may offer those services or goods on behalf of the provider. A provider may also serve as the seller. Supersedes carrier.
`publisher`	Organization	The publisher of the creative work.
`publishingPrinciples`	URL	Link to page describing the editorial principles of the organization primarily responsible for the creation of the CreativeWork.
`recordedAt`	Event	The Event where the CreativeWork was recorded. The CreativeWork may capture all or part of the event. Inverse property: recordedIn.
`releasedEvent`	PublicationEvent	The place and time the release was issued, expressed as a PublicationEvent.
`review`	Review	A review of the item. Supersedes reviews.
`schemaVersion`	URL or Text	Indicates (by URL or string) a particular version of a schema used in some CreativeWork. For example, a document could declare a schemaVersion using an URL such as http://schema.org/docs/releases.html#v1.91 if precise indication of schema version was required by some application.
`sourceOrganization`	Organization	The Organization on whose behalf the creator was working.
`text`	Text	The textual content of this CreativeWork.
`thumbnailUrl`	URL	A thumbnail image relevant to the Thing.
`timeRequired`	Duration	Approximate or typical time it takes to work with or through this learning resource for the typical intended target audience, e.g. 'P30M', 'P1H25M'.
`translator`	Organization or Person	Organization or person who adapts a creative work to different languages, regional differences and technical requirements of a target market.
`typicalAgeRange`	Text	The typical expected age range, e.g. '7-9', '11-'.
`version`	Number	The version of the CreativeWork embodied by a specified resource.
`video`	VideoObject	An embedded video object.
`workExample`	CreativeWork	Example/instance/realization/derivation of the concept of this creative work. eg. The paperback edition, first edition, or eBook. Inverse property: exampleOfWork.
Properties from Thing
`additionalType`	URL	An additional type for the item, typically used for adding more specific types from external vocabularies in microdata syntax. This is a relationship between something and a class that the thing is in. In RDFa syntax, it is better to use the native RDFa syntax - the 'typeof' attribute - for multiple types. Schema.org tools may have only weaker understanding of extra types, in particular those defined externally.
`alternateName`	Text	An alias for the item.
`description`	Text	A short description of the item.
`image`	URL or ImageObject	An image of the item. This can be a URL or a fully described ImageObject.
`mainEntityOfPage`	CreativeWork	Indicates a page (or other CreativeWork) for which this thing is the main entity being described. Many (but not all) pages have a fairly clear primary topic, some entity or thing that the page describes. For example a restaurant's home page might be primarily about that Restaurant, or an event listing page might represent a single event. The mainEntity and mainEntityOfPage properties allow you to explicitly express the relationship between the page and the primary entity. Related properties include sameAs, about, and url. The sameAs and url properties are both similar to mainEntityOfPage. The url property should be reserved to refer to more official or authoritative web pages, such as the item’s official website. The sameAs property also relates a thing to a page that indirectly identifies it. Whereas sameAs emphasises well known pages, the mainEntityOfPage property serves more to clarify which of several entities is the main one for that page. mainEntityOfPage can be used for any page, including those not recognized as authoritative for that entity. For example, for a product, sameAs might refer to a page on the manufacturer’s official site with specs for the product, while mainEntityOfPage might be used on pages within various retailers’ sites giving details for the same product. about is similar to mainEntity, with two key differences. First, about can refer to multiple entities/topics, while mainEntity should be used for only the primary one. Second, some pages have a primary entity that itself describes some other entity. For example, one web page may display a news article about a particular person. Another page may display a product review for a particular product. In these cases, mainEntity for the pages should refer to the news article or review, respectively, while about would more properly refer to the person or product. Inverse property: mainEntity.
`name`	Text	The name of the item.
`potentialAction`	Action	Indicates a potential Action, which describes an idealized action in which this thing would play an 'object' role.
`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.
`url`	URL	URL of the item.

Instances of Answer may appear as values for the following properties

Property	On Types	Description
`acceptedAnswer`	Question	The answer that has been accepted as best, typically on a Question/Answer site. Sites vary in their selection mechanisms, e.g. drawing on community opinion and/or the view of the Question author.
`suggestedAnswer`	Question	An answer (possibly one of several, possibly incorrect) to a Question, e.g. on a Question/Answer site.

Acknowledgements

The Question/Answer types were based on the Stack Overflow API.

Examples

Without Markup Microdata RDFa JSON-LD

John replied '4' to Steve's question 'What's 2 + 2?'.

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This example is JSON only.

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    <h1>What is attr_accessor in Ruby?</h1>
    <div>196</div>
    <div>I am having difficulty understanding Ruby attr_accessors, can someone explain them?</div>
    <div>asked Nov 11 '10 at 20:07</div>
    <div><span>someuser</span></div>
    <div><span>4</span> answers</div>
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      (The text of the accepted answer goes here...).
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      <div>answered Dec 1 '10 at 22:01</div>
      <div><span>anotheruser</span></div>
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      <div>vote count: 39</div>
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        (Another explanation would go here).
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      <div>answered Dec 6 '10 at 21:11</div>
      <div><span>lonelyuser1234</span></div>
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