---
id: "subtitle"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["texts"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 65
url: "https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/subtitle"
---

# Subtitle (`subtitle`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Secondary title of a work, printed after or under the main title, often after a colon or the word "or". It narrows the topic of the work or gives an alternative title. Field names are subtitle and sub_title; Wikidata stores it in property P1680 and Schema.org in alternativeHeadline.

- Parent datatype: `title`
- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Texts and  articles (texts)
- Countries: global
- Languages: Common to most languages (common)

## Examples

- `The Modern Prometheus` — Subtitle of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- `The Whale` — Subtitle of Moby-Dick by Herman Melville

## Mappings

- schema_org: `alternativeHeadline`
- wikidata: `P1680`

## Translations

- ru: Подзаголовок: Второе название произведения, которое печатается после основного или под ним.

## Sources

- wikidata: <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1680>
- schema.org: <https://schema.org/alternativeHeadline>
- wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subtitle_(titling)>

## Quality

Score 65/100. Missing: regexp, negative example, detector coverage.

JSON: <https://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/subtitle.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/any/texts/subtitle.yaml>