bornIn

BornIn is a data field used in person records, knowledge graphs, and biographical datasets to indicate the birthplace of an individual. It denotes the location where a person was born and is often used alongside other biographical attributes such as birth date, nationality, and place of residence.

In data modeling, bornIn can be represented in different formats. A simple approach stores a string with the place name, for example "New York, United States." A more structured approach uses an object with components such as city, region or state, country, and sometimes geographic coordinates. Example structures might be "bornIn": "Rome, Italy" or "bornIn": { "city": "Rome", "country": "Italy", "coordinates": { "lat": 41.9028, "lon": 12.4964 } }. Some schemas link the birthplace to standardized authority data (for example, GeoNames or ISO country codes) to improve disambiguation and interoperability.

Common usage includes populating biographical profiles, search filters, and heritage records. In many knowledge bases, the field is synonymous with or mapped to a formal property like place of birth. It is distinct from date-related fields such as birth date or from fields describing where a person was raised.

Caveats include political and administrative changes that can affect place names, the possibility of multiple birthplaces for individuals born in transit, and the need for disambiguation when places share the same name. Privacy and data quality considerations also apply in sensitive or incomplete datasets.