Error

A Schema.org Type

Usage: (Google - May 2026)

This term is in the "new" area - implementation feedback and adoption from applications and websites can help improve our definitions.

Thing > Intangible > StructuredValue > InstantaneousEvent > Error
Error

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Canonical URL: https://schema.org/Error
Equivalent Class: hydra:Error
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Representation of an Error.

sarif:Result

Property	Expected Type	Description
Properties from Error
`errorCode`	DefinedTerm or Integer or StatusEnumeration or Text	Application or platform dependant error code.
Properties from InstantaneousEvent
`data`	Thing	Data associated with the event, like for instance a log message.
`source`	Thing	The source or cause of the event.
`timestamp`	DateTime	The instant the event occured.
Properties from Thing
`additionalType`	Text or URL	An additional type for the item, typically used for adding more specific types from external vocabularies in microdata syntax. This is a relationship between something and a class that the thing is in. Typically the value is a URI-identified RDF class, and in this case corresponds to the use of rdf:type in RDF. Text values can be used sparingly, for cases where useful information can be added without their being an appropriate schema to reference. In the case of text values, the class label should follow the schema.org style guide.
`alternateName`	Text	An alias for the item.
`description`	Text or TextObject	A description of the item.
`disambiguatingDescription`	Text	A sub property of description. A short description of the item used to disambiguate from other, similar items. Information from other properties (in particular, name) may be necessary for the description to be useful for disambiguation.
`identifier`	PropertyValue or Text or URL	The identifier property represents any kind of identifier for any kind of Thing, such as ISBNs, GTIN codes, UUIDs etc. Schema.org provides dedicated properties for representing many of these, either as textual strings or as URL (URI) links. See background notes for more details.
`image`	ImageObject or URL	An image of the item. This can be a URL or a fully described ImageObject.
`mainEntityOfPage`	CreativeWork or URL	Indicates a page (or other CreativeWork) for which this thing is the main entity being described. See background notes for details. Inverse property: mainEntity
`name`	Text	The name of the item.
`owner`	Organization or Person	A person or organization who owns this Thing. Inverse property: owns
`potentialAction`	Action	Indicates a potential Action, which describes an idealized action in which this thing would play an 'object' role.
`sameAs`	URL	URL of a reference Web page that unambiguously indicates the item's identity. E.g. the URL of the item's Wikipedia page, Wikidata entry, or official website.
`subjectOf`	CreativeWork or Event	A CreativeWork or Event about this Thing. Inverse property: about
`url`	URL	URL of the item.

Source

https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues/4579

Examples

Example 1

No Markup JSON-LD Structure

Example notes or example HTML without markup.

<code>Out of Cheese Error: DEADBEEF</code>

Example encoded as JSON-LD in a HTML script tag.

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org/",
  "@type": "Error",
  "timestamp": "2025-11-17T18:23:00Z",
  "description": "Out of Cheese Error",
  "source": {
     "@type": "SoftwareApplication",
     "name": "Cheese Machine"
  },
  "errorCode": "DEADBEEF"
}
</script>

Structured representation of the JSON-LD example.