Datatypes

Years of life of a person

ID person_life_years

DatatypePersonal data (PII)Draft

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Years of birth and death of a person written as two four-digit years joined by a hyphen or an en dash, such as 1837–1919. A question mark stands for an unknown year of death. Catalogues of museum objects and of lost cultural property give the years of life of authors in this form.

Parent datatype
Year range year_range
Categories
Person related, Date and time, Personally identifiable information
Countries
Global (not tied to a country)
Languages
Common to most languages
Quality
65/100 · missing: source link, mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), detector coverage
Metacrafter rules
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Supported by tools
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Regular expression

^\d{4}\s?[-–]\s?(?:\d{4}|\?)$

Python re syntax.

Examples

ValueDescription
1720-1778
1837–1919
1877-?Year of death unknown
Вторая половина XIX в. invalidHistorical dating, the datatype ru_historical_dating

Translations

LanguageNameDescription
RussianГоды жизни

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