entitypersonoccupationengineer

entitypersonoccupationengineer is a label used in knowledge-graph schemas to denote a person whose primary occupation is engineering. It combines a person entity with an occupation tag to enable machine-readable classification and querying.

In practical ontology design, Person is a general class and occupation is a property that can be expressed with values such as engineer. The composite label serves as a convenient reference for systems that tag individuals by both identity and occupation. A typical data model represents this as a Person entity with properties such as name, birthDate, nationality, and a specific occupation value such as "engineer." To increase precision, fields such as fieldOfEngineering (for example, Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, Software) and currentEmployer or affiliation are often included. The relationship can be captured with predicates like hasOccupation, worksAs, or occupation, depending on the ontology.

Usage scenarios include search and data integration, where users query for engineers or where datasets merge individuals from multiple sources by occupation. The term is a descriptive label rather than a universal standard, used to align data across systems.

Disambiguation considerations: engineering covers multiple disciplines, so specifying fieldOfEngineering improves accuracy; time-based qualifiers can express current versus historical occupation.

See also: Person (entity), Occupation (concept), Engineer (profession), Field of engineering, Schema.org, FOAF, Linked data.