KGMID SEO

KGMID and Knowledge Graph: a glossary

Entity home

What is Entity home?

An entity home is the single page on a site you control that states the complete, authoritative truth about your entity, and it is the anchor every other signal resolves against.

Who uses the term Entity home?

Entity home is used across semantic SEO for the page a brand designates as its own canonical record of itself.

This website is one. It is the entity home for the book, which is why its facts, its identifiers and its unresolved contradictions are all published in one place.

An About page is written for a reader. An entity home is written to be resolved by a machine, and carries the fullest structured data on the site.

A homepage sells. An entity home settles: it is the destination every third-party mention is meant to point back to.

What does KGMID SEO: Claim Your Entity Before Google Defines It for You say about Entity home?

The book's warning is what makes this urgent: the graph needs one canonical source to reconcile fragments against, and if you do not give it one deliberately it will improvise from whatever page seems most official, which is how outdated about pages end up defining businesses for years. From Chapter 6 onward every tactic in the book assumes the home exists, because corroborating an entity that has not decided what it is corroborates nothing.

Read about the book's argument.

Related terms

  • Corroboration

    Corroboration is agreement between independent sources on the same claim about an entity, and it is what promotes a claim into a fact the Knowledge Graph will hold.

  • KGMID

    A KGMID is the unique identifier Google assigns to an entity in its Knowledge Graph, and it is the key every fact, attribute and knowledge panel about that entity connects back to.

  • Entity Confidence

    Entity Confidence describes the degree of certainty a knowledge system holds about an entity's attributes, and it is the metric this book optimises throughout.

  • Disambiguation

    Disambiguation is the deliberate separation work that lets a knowledge system tell your entity apart from anything else sharing its name.