field stringlengths 5 17 | type stringclasses 6
values | required stringclasses 2
values | description stringlengths 7 51 | example stringlengths 1 59 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
engine | enum | yes | chatgpt/claude/perplexity/gemini/copilot/grok/other | chatgpt |
query | string | yes | The user query that triggered the citation | best house cleaner Bentonville AR |
cited_url | url | yes | URL of the cited page | https://amandas-residential-cleaning.thatwebhostingguy.com/ |
cited_domain | string | yes | Root domain extracted | amandas-residential-cleaning.thatwebhostingguy.com |
position | int | yes | 1-based citation order in the answer | 1 |
confidence | float | no | 0.0-1.0 | 0.92 |
query_category | enum | yes | informational/transactional/navigational/commercial | commercial |
vertical | string | no | Industry vertical | residential-cleaning |
geographic_intent | enum | no | local/national/international/none | local |
device | enum | no | mobile/desktop/api | mobile |
country | string | no | ISO-3166-1 alpha-2 | US |
language | string | no | ISO 639-1 | en |
timestamp_utc | datetime | yes | ISO 8601 UTC | 2026-05-26T18:00:00Z |
query_id | string | yes | Stable hash of the normalized query | sha256:a1b2c3... |
YAML Metadata Warning:The task_categories "structured-prediction" is not in the official list: text-classification, token-classification, table-question-answering, question-answering, zero-shot-classification, translation, summarization, feature-extraction, text-generation, fill-mask, sentence-similarity, text-to-speech, text-to-audio, automatic-speech-recognition, audio-to-audio, audio-classification, audio-text-to-text, voice-activity-detection, depth-estimation, image-classification, object-detection, image-segmentation, text-to-image, image-to-text, image-to-image, image-to-video, unconditional-image-generation, video-classification, reinforcement-learning, robotics, tabular-classification, tabular-regression, tabular-to-text, table-to-text, multiple-choice, text-ranking, text-retrieval, time-series-forecasting, text-to-video, image-text-to-text, image-text-to-image, image-text-to-video, visual-question-answering, document-question-answering, zero-shot-image-classification, graph-ml, mask-generation, zero-shot-object-detection, text-to-3d, image-to-3d, image-feature-extraction, video-text-to-text, keypoint-detection, visual-document-retrieval, any-to-any, video-to-video, other
AEO Citation Tracking Schema
A reference schema for tracking when and how AI search engines (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews) cite a website. Designed as a starting point for AEO/GEO/LLMO monitoring tools. Maintained by ThatDevPro.
Background
Answer Engine Optimization (AEO), Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), and LLM Optimization (LLMO) are emerging disciplines tracking how brands appear in AI-generated answers across:
- ChatGPT (OpenAI) — includes web search via SearchGPT
- Claude (Anthropic) — includes web search via claude.ai
- Perplexity — citation-first AI search
- Gemini (Google) — includes AI Overviews in Google Search
- Copilot (Microsoft) — Bing AI mode
- Grok (xAI) — Twitter/X AI search
This dataset defines a minimal, normalized schema for tracking citation events across these engines.
Schema columns
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
engine |
enum | chatgpt / claude / perplexity / gemini / copilot / grok / other |
query |
string | The user query that triggered the citation |
cited_url |
string | URL of the cited page |
cited_domain |
string | Root domain |
position |
int | Citation order in the answer (1 = first) |
confidence |
float | 0.0-1.0 (model-reported or inferred) |
query_category |
string | informational / transactional / navigational / commercial |
vertical |
string | Industry vertical (cleaning, tax, legal, etc.) |
geographic_intent |
string | Local / national / international / none |
device |
string | mobile / desktop / api |
country |
string | ISO-3166 |
language |
string | ISO 639-1 |
timestamp_utc |
datetime | When citation was observed |
query_id |
string | Stable hash of the query for deduplication |
Use cases
- Bootstrap an AEO monitoring tool (database schema, API design)
- Benchmark consistency of citation across engines
- Detect citation hallucinations (URL doesn't match content)
- Research geographic and vertical patterns in AI citation
- Compete with platforms like AthenaHQ, Profound, Bluefish AI, Otterly.AI on a free + open standard
Related Resources
- ThatDevPro AEO insights
- aio-surfaces — generates the four AI-citation surfaces
- ThatDevPro framework series — 100+ AEO/GEO/SEO frameworks
- Wikidata Q139901957 — author
Citation
@misc{anady2026aeoschema,
author = {Anady, Joseph W.},
title = {AEO Citation Tracking Schema},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Hugging Face},
url = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/ThatDeveloperGuy13/aeo-citation-tracking-schema},
}
License
CC BY 4.0. Free reuse with attribution.
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