Entity &
Wikidata Strategy
Schema-first. Wikidata later.
Ship the @id-linked schema graph and GBP plus social corroboration now. Hold the Wikidata submission until a real third-party citation exists. Yordy-proof the description.
The Recommendation Flipped to Schema-First
The entity gets built by the schema graph and the corroboration profiles. Wikidata is the last step, not the first, and it is optional.
My earlier version of this deliverable told you to submit both Wikidata items now. I'd hold off. A brand-new brand item and a matching founder Person item, created from a single-purpose account and both sourced only to your own website, is the exact pattern Wikidata reviewers treat as promotional spam.
Fresh, self-referential brand-plus-founder pairs from one account get speedy-deleted, and the account itself can get flagged. Submitting now is not a neutral bet with upside. It carries a real downside: a deletion and a flagged account make your second attempt harder, not easier.
- Now. Ship the @id-linked on-site schema graph, and stand up the social and directory profiles that corroborate the entity. Higher value than a Wikidata item, and it depends on no one's approval.
- Later. Submit the Yoreh brand Wikidata item only once at least one genuine third-party source with an external identifier exists (a real listicle inclusion, a directory entry with an ID, a press mention). Reference that earned source, not the site.
- Never. Submit a bare Person item for a founder with no independent coverage. The Fin Matson item rides along later, only if the brand item lands and you have confirmable independent profiles.
The Notability Reality
Submitting into an evidence base of zero independent press gets the item deleted. Earn one real source first, then submit.
Wikidata's notability policy (WD:N) accepts an item that refers to a clearly identifiable entity described by at least one serious, publicly available reference. That is more permissive than Wikipedia. But "serious, publicly available reference" in practice means independent of the subject. A 2023 jewelry startup whose only references are its own website does not clear that bar cleanly, and a reviewer will say so.
- There is a brand-launch film credit (Fero,
ferofilm.com/work/yoreh). That is a vendor credit, not independent editorial coverage. - There is no ranking listicle inclusion, no trade press, and no national press on the jewelry brand.
- Fin Matson has no independent coverage and no Wikipedia article.
An earlier draft leaned on a Honeycombers link as the notability reference. Discard it entirely. You told us the mention was about a coffee shop, not this brand. So it is not a weak citation, it is a citation for a different business.
This matters beyond Wikidata. It is the same confusion the baseline scan picked up in the models, where 19 answers described a cafe attached to the brand. Our own research had absorbed it too, which is worth saying plainly.
A citation a reviewer can falsify is worse than no citation. One pointing at the wrong entity is worse still.
You told us Cool Hunting will publish a piece on the smart ring jackets. That is the independent, editorial, third-party source this entire section has been waiting for, and it changes the sequencing from "go and earn one" to "time the work around one you already have coming".
What to do when it lands: send us the URL. Wait a few weeks for the article to settle and be indexed, then submit the Wikidata brand item referencing Cool Hunting rather than yoreh.co. That is the difference between an item that reads as promotional and one that clears notability on a real source.
In the meantime the schema graph and corroboration profiles carry the entity on their own, which is why they are unconditional and Wikidata is not.
Earn One Real Citation
One inclusion is both the Wikidata unlock and a citable asset. Treat it as a priority, not a nice-to-have.
One genuine third-party inclusion changes everything. It makes the Wikidata item submittable, and the inclusion is itself an AI-citable source that feeds the entity directly. This is the single highest-leverage move in this document.
An earlier version sent you at the Bali jewelry roundups (Honeycombers, BitsofBali, BaliSpirit) because they are the easiest inclusions to win. They are no longer the primary target. The fastest citation is not worth much if it is the wrong kind: a Bali-listicle inclusion is a third-party page asserting a Bali base, which is precisely the association the entity work is unpicking, and third-party pages are far harder to correct later than your own.
Pitch these instead, in order. Each one can name you without placing you:
- Smart ring jacket and Oura accessory roundups. NBC Select, TechTimes, Grazia, themodems. This is the pocket you already win unprompted at 35%, the field is open, and none of these require a location.
- Alternative and men's silver jewelry roundups. apetogentleman, fashionbeans, stylecaster, themodernobserver. Your real competitive set, led by The Great Frog.
- Founder and maker interviews. The route both Good Art Hlywd and Serge DeNimes took. A named founder with a craft story is citable without being geolocated, and the Cool Hunting piece is the one already in motion.
If a Bali roundup does come up, it is not forbidden, it is framed. The angle is the workshop and the making: handcrafted in a Bali workshop, recycled 925, lost-wax cast. Never "a Bali brand" or "a Canggu label". The distinction sounds pedantic and is not. One describes where the pieces are made, which is true and interesting. The other describes what the brand is, which is the sentence the models have been repeating back at you.
Wikipedia vs Wikidata
Wikipedia is out of reach. Do not attempt it. Wikidata, an item later with one earned source, is the realistic target.
Wikipedia is out of reach and stays out of reach until Yoreh has multiple pieces of significant independent coverage. Do not attempt a Wikipedia article. A stub on a 2023 brand with no press gets deleted fast and can sour later attempts. Wikipedia is not on the roadmap for this engagement.
The On-Site Schema Graph
Five nodes, one canonical @id, real values, gated facts held back. This is the deliverable that actually moves the entity.
A full @id-linked JSON-LD node graph on yoreh.co, every node referencing one canonical organization @id, so Google's Knowledge Graph and the LLMs resolve Yoreh as one coherent entity. This does not need Wikidata and it is what carries the brand.
- Organization (
@id: https://yoreh.co/#organization): the anchor every other node points to. - Person (Fin Matson):
founderof the Organization. - Product (the smart ring jacket line): ties the flagship category to the brand.
- WebSite: with a
SearchAction(sitelinks search box) referencing the Organization. - BreadcrumbList: site structure, reinforcing the same entity.
| Property | Value | Note |
|---|---|---|
| @id | https://yoreh.co/#organization | Canonical id every node references |
| name | Yoreh | n/a |
| legalName | Yoreh Supply LLC | Registered entity. Legal docs and schema only, never the public name |
| alternateName | "yoreh®" | The real trading mark, not an invented variant (see Yordy) |
| foundingDate | 2023 | Confirmed by you, 18 July 2026 |
| foundingLocation | omitted, deliberately | See the note below. Do not assert. |
| founder | Person node (Fin Matson) | Sole founder |
| knowsAbout | ["smart ring jacket", "Oura ring accessories", "RingConn accessories", "recycled sterling silver jewelry"] | Ties category expertise to the brand |
| slogan | brand tagline | Pull from site |
| logo | yoreh.co logo URL | n/a |
| address | PostalAddress, 5830 E 2nd St, Ste 7000 #26987, Casper, WY 82609, US | Registered US address |
| sameAs | the corroboration set (section 06) | Real profiles only |
The location decision, stated plainly. An earlier version of this document put Canggu into foundingLocation, address and the canonical description. That is reversed. The baseline scan found that the moment a model is told Yoreh is a jewelry brand, every answer places it in Bali and none identify the US entity, with 61% asserting a Bali base. Writing Bali into the entity layer would harden the exact read the repositioning exists to undo. What shipped instead: the registered US entity and address are asserted, and founding location is left unstated. Bali stays where it is true and useful, as the workshop, on the FAQ, warranty and returns pages. It is a production fact, not an entity attribute.
| Property | Value | Note |
|---|---|---|
| name | YRH Ring Jacket (smart ring jacket) | n/a |
| brand | Organization node | n/a |
| material | recycled 925 sterling silver; 18k gold at 3.5 microns | Not 24k |
| isAccessoryOrSparePartFor | Oura ring; RingConn | Ties the category to the entity |
sameAs and Corroboration
The profiles are the entity engine, higher value than the Wikidata item. Build and align them first.
Every profile below is two things at once: a sameAs target in the schema graph,
and an independent corroboration source Google reads when it decides whether Yoreh is a real,
consistent entity. Google's Knowledge Graph is built from exactly this kind of
cross-referenced, consistent presence. Stand each one up and align it: identical name, the
same registered US entity details, same URL everywhere. Consistency is what does the work,
so a profile carrying a different address undoes more than it adds.
- Not a Google Business Profile. An earlier draft listed it first. It is now excluded, because the only physical address available is a former partner's business. The reasoning is in the Review Strategy, and it applies identically here: a verified Google listing on that address would corroborate the wrong entity.
- Bing Places: feeds Bing and, through it, ChatGPT. Same address caution applies.
- LinkedIn company page: a strong entity signal AI and Google both weight.
- Pinterest business profile.
- YouTube channel.
- Crunchbase: carries an external identifier, useful later as a Wikidata reference.
- Facebook page.
Disambiguate from Yordy
Every description we write should be un-confusable with the Miami brand. The disambiguator is no longer geography, it is the product.
yordy.co is an established Miami luxury jewelry brand, founded 2018. It is a stronger entity than Yoreh today, it sits in the same category, and its domain is a near-homograph of yoreh.co. If we do nothing, an AI or a search engine can collapse the two or surface Yordy when someone means Yoreh. Bake disambiguation into every surface.
The original disambiguation strategy was Bali versus Miami. Two jewelry brands with near-identical names, told apart by where they are. You correctly pointed out that this collapses now that Yoreh is presented as US-based and no location is asserted at all.
The replacement is the product, and it is stronger. Yoreh makes smart ring jackets for Oura and RingConn. Yordy does not, and neither does essentially anyone else in fine jewelry. Geography was a weak separator anyway, because two US jewelry brands are more confusable than a Bali one and a Miami one, not less. A category nobody else occupies is a harder thing for a model to blur than a city.
Secondary separators, in order: the named founder (Fin Matson), recycled 925 as the stated material, and the registered entity name in legalName.
- Maximally distinctive description. Lead with the things Yordy cannot claim: the named founder, recycled 925, minimalist and unisex design, and above all the smart ring jackets for Oura and RingConn. The jackets are the sharpest disambiguator you have, because no other jewelry brand in this space makes them.
- A real, distinctive alternateName. Use
"yoreh®", the mark you actually trade under. An earlier draft proposed"Yoreh The Label"as a distinctive variant, not realising it was the old company name. You asked for it to be removed everywhere, and it is: an entity graph asserting a defunct name would corroborate the wrong thing. Worth noting the Shopify product vendor field still reads "Yoreh The Label" on the catalog, which is a separate cleanup and is on the list. - A distinct sameAs set. The corroboration profiles are Yoreh's own; keep them tightly Yoreh-branded so the graph never overlaps Yordy's.
- A consistent registered address that separates you from Miami. The Casper, Wyoming entity address, identical on every node. Note that this disambiguates by entity rather than by geography, which is the point: it separates you from Yordy without asserting a Bali base.
"Yoreh is an independent jewelry brand founded by Fin Matson, handcrafting minimalist pieces in recycled 925 sterling silver. The range spans rings, chains, pendants, and bracelets, plus smart ring jackets that turn an Oura or RingConn into fine jewelry. Objects that become identity, for those who don't blend in."
Internal note: this is the description you approved, and it is what shipped to all three places on the theme: the homepage block, the Organization schema, and llms.txt. Reuse it verbatim across schema, meta and profiles. Do not reintroduce a location into it. It carries an explicit "distinct from Yordy (yordy.co, Miami, est. 2018)" purpose, which it serves through the founder name and the smart ring jackets rather than through geography.
Gated Facts
Gate all three behind your confirmation. Ship the schema without them rather than ship them wrong.
Three facts are unverified. Structured data with a wrong fact is worse than an omission, because AI treats it as authoritative.
- Gate 01Inception 2023. Closed. You confirmed the year on 18 July, and
foundingDate: "2023"is live in the Organization schema. Founding location remains unasserted, which is a separate decision and not a gate. - Gate 02The trademark. Closed. The store brands as "YRH" and "yoreh" with a registered-trademark symbol, and you confirmed the mark is registered in the US. The symbol is therefore safe to carry, and "yoreh®" stays as
alternateName. - Gate 03Country of registration. Closed. Confirmed as Yoreh Supply LLC, registered in Wyoming, United States. It is live in the schema as
legalNameplus the registered address. It stays out of public copy: the brand is "Yoreh" everywhere a customer reads.
Entity Records
Both records are correct and ready. They are held, not filed. Submit the brand item only after a real third-party source lands, and never submit the Person item alone.
| Property | Value | Reference (at submission) |
|---|---|---|
| P31 instance of | brand (Q431289); consider business (Q4830453) | n/a |
| P452 industry | jewellery (Q161439) | earned source |
| P571 inception | 2023 | confirmed by you |
| P112 founded by | Fin Matson (Record 2) | site |
| P17 country | United States (Q30) | registered entity, Yoreh Supply LLC (WY) |
| P159 headquarters | omit | do not assert, see section 05 |
| P856 official website | https://www.yoreh.co | site |
| P2003 Instagram | yoreh.co | IG |
| P1056 material produced | jewellery; sterling silver (Q1155452) | site |
Founder is Fin Matson only. Don't add any co-founder. Don't submit until one independent source with an external identifier exists; reference that source for the non-obvious statements, not the brand site. The description is Yordy-proofed on purpose: keep it distinctive at submission.
| Property | Value | Reference (at submission) |
|---|---|---|
| P31 instance of | human (Q5) | n/a |
| P106 occupation | jewellery designer (Q2519376); photographer (Q33231); creative director | confirmed by you |
| P112 (of Record 1) | founder of Yoreh | site |
| sameAs | LinkedIn, personal Instagram (confirm handles) | gated: need your profiles |
Never submit this as a standalone Person item. A founder with no independent coverage does not clear notability and a bare Person item invites deletion. Submit only after the brand item lands and you have confirmable independent profiles for the sameAs and for the on-site Person node.
Recommended Sequence
Schema and corroboration are unconditional and first. Wikidata is conditional and last.
| # | Window | Move |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | Days 1–3 Corroboration foundation |
Run a consistency audit (one exact name, the registered US entity details, canonical URL). Claim and align Bing Places, LinkedIn company page, Pinterest, and YouTube. No Google Business Profile. |
| 02 | Days 3–7 Ship the schema graph |
Deploy the @id-linked JSON-LD (Organization, Person, Product, WebSite with SearchAction, BreadcrumbList) with the Yordy-proof description and the full real sameAs set. Gated facts held back. |
| 03 | Days 7–12 Earn one citation, confirm facts |
Pitch Yoreh into the smart ring jacket and alternative silver roundups named in section 03, and into founder interviews. All the gated facts are now confirmed, so nothing here waits on you. |
| 04 | When Cool Hunting lands Wikidata, referencing that article |
Once the Cool Hunting piece is live and has had a few weeks to settle, submit the brand Wikidata item referencing it rather than yoreh.co. The Fin Matson Person item rides with it. If the article slips, do not submit early: the whole point is that the item rests on a source a reviewer can check. |
What I Need From You
- Closed. The founder
sameAs. You asked us to use your Instagram and not LinkedIn, so the Person node carries Instagram only. - Closed. The inception year. Confirmed 2023.
- Closed. The registered entity. Yoreh Supply LLC, Wyoming, US.
- Closed. The trademark. You confirmed it is registered in the US, so "yoreh®" is a real mark and is safe to carry in
alternateNameand in copy. - Still open. One genuine third-party citation. This is the only thing standing between you and a submittable Wikidata item, and it is the reason section 03 changed its targets.
Sources
yoreh.co (manifesto, meet-the-team, homepage): founder (Fin Matson, sole), founding year (2023, confirmed), materials, positioning. Bali appears as the workshop, on the FAQ, warranty and returns pages, and is not used as an entity attribute. ferofilm.com/work/yoreh: brand launch film credit (vendor credit, not independent editorial): ferofilm.com/work/yoreh Honeycombers: discarded. You confirmed the mention was about a coffee shop, not this brand, so it is not a Yoreh source at all. Cool Hunting (smart ring jackets feature, incoming) is the citation to plan around instead, and the one the Wikidata submission should reference. yordy.co: the Miami luxury jewelry brand (est. 2018) Yoreh must be disambiguated from: yordy.co