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====Search Fields====
====Search Fields====
The artist index contains the following fields you can search:
The [[Artist|artist]] index contains the following fields you can search:
{| border="1" class="wikitable sortable"
{| border="1" class="wikitable sortable"
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! Field !! Description
! Field !! Description
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| arid || MBID of the artist
| alias || an alias attached to the artist
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| artist || name of the artist
| area || the artist's main associated area
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| artistaccent || name of the artist with any accent characters retained
| arid || the artist's MBID
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| artist || the artist's name (without accented characters)
| alias || the aliases/misspellings for the artist
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| begin || artist birth date/band founding date
| artistaccent || the artist's name (with accented characters)
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| comment || artist comment to differentiate similar artists
| begin || the artist's begin date
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| beginarea || the artist's begin area
| country || the [http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes/iso_3166_code_lists/english_country_names_and_code_elements.htm two letter country code] for the artist country or 'unknown'
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| end || artist death date/band dissolution 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”
| ended || true if know ended even if do not know end date
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| gender || gender of the artist (“male”, “female”, “other”)
| end || the artist's end date
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| ipi || IPI code for the artist
| endarea || the artist's end area
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| sortname || artist sortname
| ended || a flag indicating whether or not the artist has ended
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| gender || the artist's gender (“male”, “female”, or “other”)
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| tag || a tag applied to the artist
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| ipi || an IPI code associated with the artist
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| type || artist type (“person”, “group”, "other" or “unknown”)
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| sortname || the artist's sort name
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| tag || a tag attached to the artist
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| type || the artist's type (“person”, “group”, ...)
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Revision as of 00:07, 8 July 2020

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.

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