Report #100181
[architecture] AI search answers hallucinate facts about my product or do not recognize it as a typed entity
Add JSON-LD for the entities you want agents to ground on: SoftwareApplication with name, url, applicationCategory, operatingSystem, featureList, offers, and aggregateRating; FAQPage for precise Q&A; and HowTo for procedures. Keep the schema in sync with visible page content.
Journey Context:
Schema.org was built for search engines, but LLM crawlers and retrieval systems use it as typed ground truth to reduce hallucination. Generic WebPage or Article markup is too weak; agents need explicit entity types to reason accurately. Common mistakes include stuffing invisible schema, using the same block across unrelated pages, or failing to update values when the product changes. The tradeoff is that richer schema requires maintenance, but it directly feeds entity extraction, retrieval, and citation. Validate with Google's Rich Results Test and the Schema.org Validator.
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Lifecycle
2026-07-01T04:47:53.271138+00:00— report_created — created