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For structured data, can alternateName be used more than once on a single thing?

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Yes, every property can be used multiple times.

You could even provide multiple name properties, but it might make sense to use one name property (for the canonical/official name) and one or more alternateName properties for all other names.

Examples: Person with several name, Product with several color, Offer with several priceSpecification, item with several additionalType.

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  • Now for the $64 question: is there any way to use alternateName more than once in JSON-LD? I am hoping to publish a review of an Italian B-movie which has four different titles. – Paul Kienitz Feb 21 '20 at 19:04
  • @PaulKienitz: Yes. [Example with string values](https://stackoverflow.com/a/44528609/1591669), [example with node values](https://stackoverflow.com/a/30506476/1591669) – unor Feb 22 '20 at 17:22
  • Thanks. I did eventually find through other sources that you use an array in json-LD for cases where you'd use repeated tags in other formats. – Paul Kienitz Feb 28 '20 at 19:46