Property talk:P1416

Documentation

affiliation
organization that a person or organization is affiliated with (not necessarily member of or employed by)

Represents

affiliation (Q46135267)

Data type

Item

Domain

According to this template: human (Q5)

According to statements in the property:
human (Q5), group of humans (Q16334295), fictional organization (Q14623646), fictional character (Q95074), organization (Q43229), fictional group of characters (Q24577840), fictional astronomical object (Q15831598), fictional species (Q21192438), facility (Q13226383), serial (Q2217301), database (Q8513) or government organization (Q2659904)

When possible, data should only be stored as statements

Allowed values

organisations (including projects) (note: this should be moved to the property statements)

Example

Raoul Bott (Q441185) → Institute for Advanced Study (Q635642)
Hannah Sipe (Q100700912) → University of Washington School of Environmental and Forest Sciences (Q98100861)

Tracking: usage

Category:Pages using Wikidata property P1416 (Q57631723)

Tracking: local yes, WD no

no label (Q101364109)

See also

member of (P463), affiliation string (P6424), parent organization (P749), has subsidiary (P355), employer (P108), partnership with (P2652), represents (P1268)

Lists

Proposal discussion

Current uses

Total	167,687
Main statement	134,783	80.4% of uses
Qualifier	32,817	19.6% of uses
Reference	87	<0.1% of uses

Search for values

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Value type “organization (Q43229), fictional organization (Q14623646), project (Q170584), fictional municipal police (Q56670043), fictional gang (Q56561355), institution (Q178706), institute (Q1664720), Christian ministry (Q1729207), church building (Q16970), structure of worship (Q1370598), fictional place of worship (Q62662717), Christian movement (Q995347), religious denomination (Q13414953), fictional group of characters (Q24577840), group of humans (Q16334295), association (Q15911314), division (Q334453), VTuber (Q55155641), government organization (Q2659904), award (Q618779)”: This property should use items as value that contain property “instance of (P31)”. On these, the value for instance of (P31) should be an item that uses subclass of (P279) with value organization (Q43229), fictional organization (Q14623646), project (Q170584), fictional municipal police (Q56670043), fictional gang (Q56561355), institution (Q178706), institute (Q1664720), Christian ministry (Q1729207), church building (Q16970), structure of worship (Q1370598), fictional place of worship (Q62662717), Christian movement (Q995347), religious denomination (Q13414953), fictional group of characters (Q24577840), group of humans (Q16334295), association (Q15911314), division (Q334453), VTuber (Q55155641), government organization (Q2659904), award (Q618779) (or a subclass thereof). (Help)

Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303).
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P1416#Value type Q43229, Q14623646, Q170584, Q56670043, Q56561355, Q178706, Q1664720, Q1729207, Q16970, Q1370598, Q62662717, Q995347, Q13414953, Q24577840, Q16334295, Q15911314, Q334453, Q55155641, Q2659904, Q618779, SPARQL

Type “human (Q5), group of humans (Q16334295), fictional organization (Q14623646), fictional character (Q95074), organization (Q43229), fictional group of characters (Q24577840), fictional astronomical object (Q15831598), fictional species (Q21192438), facility (Q13226383), serial (Q2217301), database (Q8513), government organization (Q2659904)”: item must contain property “instance of (P31)” with classes “human (Q5), group of humans (Q16334295), fictional organization (Q14623646), fictional character (Q95074), organization (Q43229), fictional group of characters (Q24577840), fictional astronomical object (Q15831598), fictional species (Q21192438), facility (Q13226383), serial (Q2217301), database (Q8513), government organization (Q2659904)” or their subclasses (defined using subclass of (P279)). (Help)

Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303).
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P1416#Type Q5, Q16334295, Q14623646, Q95074, Q43229, Q24577840, Q15831598, Q21192438, Q13226383, Q2217301, Q8513, Q2659904, SPARQL

Contemporaries:
if [item A] has this property (affiliation (P1416)) linked to [item B],
then [item A] and [item B] have to coincide or coexist at some point of history. (Help)

Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303).
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P1416#Contemporary, SPARQL

Allowed entity types are Wikibase item (Q29934200): the property may only be used on a certain entity type (Help)

Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303).
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P1416#Entity types

Scope is as main value (Q54828448), as qualifier (Q54828449): the property must be used by specified way only (Help)

Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303).
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P1416#Scope, SPARQL

Contemporaries:
if [item A] has this property (P1416) linked to [item B],
then [item A] and [item B] have to coincide or coexist at some point of history.

Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303).
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P1416#Contemporary, SPARQL

This property is being used by:

Please notify projects that use this property before big changes (renaming, deletion, merge with another property, etc.)

Value Society of Jesus (Q36380) will be automatically replaced to value Society of Jesus (Q36380) and moved to religious order (P611) property.
Testing: TODO list

Value Salesians of Don Bosco (Q223659) will be automatically replaced to value Salesians of Don Bosco (Q223659) and moved to religious order (P611) property.
Testing: TODO list

Superproperty of P108 (employer)?

It seems intuitively clear that a special case of "affiliation" is that a person is employed at the organisation. I have now added the according subproperty of (P1647) statement to employer (P108). However, the constraints used on the two properties are not fully compatible, e.g., employer (P108) allows fictional character (Q95074) to have an employer. It seems that this would also make sense for affiliation (P1416). Some alignment would be necessary. --Markus Krötzsch (talk) 09:52, 22 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I do not think that is usually the case, e.g., a person may be affiliated with a particular research group, while not employed by the research group. The employment is usually at the university level. Furthermore a journalist can - in my opinion - be affiliated with a particular newspaper, but employed by the company that publishes the newspaper. — Finn Årup Nielsen (fnielsen) (talk) 16:05, 26 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Affiliation of an Organisation

What is the equivalent property to use in organizations ?. Organizations also can be affiliated to another organisation without jerarquical dependecency or property. For instance, television network can be affiliated to another one (see: this example). Thanks, --Amadalvarez (talk) 19:59, 22 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Autoanswer: I saw that member of (P463) were limited to a person too but, after discussion, now is available for organitzations and countries. So, I'll take this one. However, I wonder whats the difference between member of (P463) and affiliation (P1416). --Amadalvarez (talk) 21:39, 22 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Amadalvarez: Added organization (Q43229) to constraints and removed the constraint that values also have sex or gender (P21). Runner1928 (talk) 18:55, 17 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Specific version of part of (P361)?

How true is this? d1g (talk) 04:18, 29 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Universities

What property should be used for universities:

Johannes Kepler (Q8963), employer (P108): Universität Graz or
Henry Laurens (Q24581082), affiliation (P1416): Tulane University

--Kolja21 (talk) 06:29, 28 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Differences

What are the differences between affiliation (P1416) and member of (P463)? --Davidpar (talk) 11:07, 6 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

+1 Would be interested in an answer too. --Nw520 (talk) 19:48, 2 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

+1 For a given faculty member, the employer is the university. For the department that they are in, is the correct property "part of", "member of", or "affiliation"? --UWashPrincipalCataloger 20:48, 31 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

+1 I also like to know the differences between "affiliation" (P1416) and "member of" (P463). --Neo-Jay (talk) 12:03, 8 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I use employer for an faculty member that is employed by a university. I think the employer property should be used in a human-legal entity relation. Affiliation I use if the faculty member is associated with a particular department or research group. "member of" I would use if the person has joined an organisation often paying membership fee, e.g., Association for Computational Linguistics (Q4346375). For a journalist that is employed by a company and works for a particular newpaper associated with the company, I would use affiliation. — Finn Årup Nielsen (fnielsen) (talk) 15:55, 26 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Furthermore, if a person is a visitor at a university, I would use affiliation property. Also if a person has an unknown relationship with a university (e.g., a paper states that a person is from a particular organization), I would use the affiliation property until the relationship is clarified, e.g., it is possible that the affiliation is as a student or as a visitor. — Finn Årup Nielsen (fnielsen) (talk) 15:59, 26 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

For example, in case of organizations, there's Internet Society (Q749257). It has organization members such as Ericsson (Q52618), and it also has other related organizations such as Internet Society France (Q3153519) that are neither members nor subsidiaries. Linking the latter using affiliation (P1416) would seem appropriate. 2001:7D0:81DA:F780:3C42:73DE:A25D:2F6C 13:52, 26 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Wrong direction used

Looking at https://scholia.toolforge.org/P1416 I see that organization items are using this property. For instance, Missouri Democratic Party (Q15980745). Using Democratic Party (Q29552) as a value seems perhaps ok, but using with, e.g., Adair County Missouri Democrats (Q99732569) as a value is in the wrong direction as far as I understand. — Finn Årup Nielsen (fnielsen) (talk) 16:10, 26 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

P1416 and P108

FYI I'm currently raising some doubts regarding the current utilization of affiliation (P1416) and employer (P108) (along with other related properties) in the discussion here. I appreciate any feedback in advance. Alexmar983 (talk) 16:18, 17 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]