{
  "kind": "fact",
  "studySlug": "anatomy-of-an-ai-citation",
  "slug": "person-schema-is-the-most-overrepresented-schema-type",
  "title": "Person schema is the most overrepresented schema type",
  "description": "In The Anatomy of an AI Citation study, analysis of structured data reveals that Person schema is the most overrepresented schema type on cited pages compared to the general web baseline.",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-03-30",
  "lastTested": "2026-03-30",
  "sourceStudyUrl": "/trakkr-research/anatomy-of-an-ai-citation",
  "sourceStudyTitle": "The Anatomy of an AI Citation",
  "claimIds": [
    "anatomy-of-an-ai-citation:person-lift"
  ],
  "relatedSlugs": [
    "answer:is-schema-enough-on-its-own-to-earn-ai-citations",
    "answer:what-does-the-benchmark-say-about-page-design-for-ai-citations",
    "tracker:schema-type-lift-tracker"
  ],
  "methodologySummary": "Built from 1,465 AI-cited pages across 950 domains, using 28,033 citation opportunities and page-level crawl analysis.",
  "limitations": [
    "Most findings are correlational. Overrepresented traits are not the same as proven causal lifts.",
    "Some subgroups, especially FAQ Schema + FAQ Content, are relatively small and should be read carefully.",
    "The study looks at cited pages rather than all uncited pages in the open web, so it is best used as a benchmark profile."
  ],
  "keywords": [
    "AI cited pages",
    "schema markup AI",
    "FAQ schema",
    "citability"
  ],
  "schemaHints": {
    "pageType": "Article",
    "includeDataset": true
  },
  "claim": "Person schema appears at 9.4x the web average rate on cited pages in the anatomy study.",
  "supportingMetrics": [
    {
      "label": "Person schema lift",
      "value": "9.4x",
      "detail": "Person schema over-indexes heavily on cited pages."
    }
  ],
  "whyItMatters": "Strategists and operators should prioritize explicit author identity and structured data markup, as the heavy over-indexing of Person schema indicates that AI models utilize author entities as a primary trust signal when selecting sources for citation.",
  "citationBlock": {
    "quote": "Person schema appears at 9.4x the web-average rate on cited pages in the anatomy study.",
    "attribution": "The Anatomy of an AI Citation - Trakkr Research",
    "url": "https://trakkr.ai/trakkr-research/anatomy-of-an-ai-citation/facts/person-schema-is-the-most-overrepresented-schema-type"
  }
}