seller type
The marketplace classification of the party making the offer — first-party (sold by the retailer of record), third-party (an independent merchant on the marketplace), marketplace (the platform itself), or official-store (a brand's verified store). A governed, recurring, filterable token, cardinality one, from a growing vocabulary (L13). Storefronts facet and badge on it ('Sold by …', 'Official Store'). Offer-realised — the same product has different sellers — but held here as grammar on the same footing as brand and availability_status; the realised seller classification is downstream (L1). Distinct from the seller's IDENTITY (a referenced entity the graph owns) and from manufacturer (the maker of record): this is the seller's class, not who the seller is.
Seller type is answered with one word chosen from the seller types list — the same word shared across every product that uses it.
It belongs to identity — who and what it is.
asked by the kinds that answer it
49 kinds answer it, each for a single value. The same question can be reused by unrelated kinds — one meaning, many homes.
asked by kinds that answer it
The same question can be reused by unrelated kinds — one meaning, many homes.
| kind | how many |
|---|---|
| Product | one |