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! Field !! Description
! Field !! Description
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| alias || an alias attached to the artist
| area || artist area
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| beginarea || artist begin area
| area || the artist's main associated area
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| endarea || artist end area
| arid || the artist's MBID
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| arid || MBID of the artist
| artist || the artist's name (without accented characters)
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| artist || name of the artist
| artistaccent || the artist's name (with accented characters)
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| artistaccent || name of the artist with any accent characters retained
| begin || the artist's begin date
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| beginarea || the artist's begin area
| alias || the aliases/misspellings for the artist
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| begin || artist birth date/band founding date
| comment || the artist's disambiguation comment
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| country || the 2-letter code (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2) for the artist's main associated country, or “unknown”
| comment || artist comment to differentiate similar artists
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| end || the artist's end date
| country || the [https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#search/code/ two letter country code] for the artist country or 'unknown'
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| end || artist death date/band dissolution date
| endarea || the artist's end area
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| ended || true if know ended even if do not know end date
| ended || a flag indicating whether or not the artist has ended
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| gender || gender of the artist (“male”, “female”, “other”)
| gender || the artist's gender (“male”, “female”, or “other”)
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| ipi || IPI code for the artist
| ipi || an IPI code associated with the artist
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| sortname || artist sortname
| sortname || the artist's sort name
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| tag || a tag applied to the artist
| tag || a tag attached to the artist
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| type || artist type (“person”, “group”, "other" or “unknown”)
| type || the artist's type (“person”, “group”, ...)
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Revision as of 16:20, 12 March 2017

Search Fields

The artist index contains the following fields you can search:

Field Description
alias an alias attached to the artist
area the artist's main associated area
arid the artist's MBID
artist the artist's name (without accented characters)
artistaccent the artist's name (with accented characters)
begin the artist's begin date
beginarea the artist's begin area
comment the artist's disambiguation comment
country the 2-letter code (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2) for the artist's main associated country, or “unknown”
end the artist's end date
endarea the artist's end area
ended a flag indicating whether or not the artist has ended
gender the artist's gender (“male”, “female”, or “other”)
ipi an IPI code associated with the artist
sortname the artist's sort name
tag a tag attached to the artist
type the artist's type (“person”, “group”, ...)

Artist search terms with no fields specified search the artist, sortname and alias fields.