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When should a professional profile use Person schema rather than Organization schema?

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Our site has founder biographies, company pages, and staff author profiles. How do we identify each entity properly?
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Use Person for an actual individual and Organization for the business, with distinct stable identifiers. Show the person’s real role, qualifications where relevant, and authored or reviewed content accurately. Link relationships such as worksFor or author where supported and appropriate. Do not mark all staff as founders or claim unverifiable credentials. If a person has trusted public profiles, link only genuine matching identities. Check that site-wide schema does not overwrite article-level author identification with the organization by mistake.
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