# Multiple relationships of same label between two nodes best practices

**URL:** <https://community.neo4j.com/t/multiple-relationships-of-same-label-between-two-nodes-best-practices/47380>\
**Category:** GraphQL & GRANDstack\
**Tags:** cypher, data-modeling\
**Created:** [November 13, 2021, 3:53am UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/multiple-relationships-of-same-label-between-two-nodes-best-practices/47380 "2021-11-13T03:53:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![geronimo4j](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex021/user_avatar/community.neo4j.com/geronimo4j/32/23355_2.png) [@geronimo4j](https://community.neo4j.com/u/geronimo4j)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2021, 3:53am UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/multiple-relationships-of-same-label-between-two-nodes-best-practices/47380/1 "2021-11-13T03:53:54Z")

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Hi I have a bunch of questions I hope you don't mind!

I have `Users`, `Lists`, and `Movies`.  
Where a `User` could create `Lists` which consist of `Movies`.

Lists are interesting because you can add Movies, but you can also track how many times you've seen them.

So I was thinking i would model it like this:

`(User) -[HAS_LIST]->(List)-[HAS_MOVIE]-(Movie)`

And then for each `HAS_MOVIE` relationship I would add a property `date_added`.

My question is: does it make sense/does it go against best practices to have multiple relationships of the same Label between the same two nodes? Is it fine to do this and have unique properties for each?

Essentially, I would then try to just call all distinct movies for the list, and then if possible see if I could list out all `HAS_MOVIE` dates? Would it be possible to fetch for all of those `date_added` in graphql, and retrieve that as a list?

Thank you in advance!

Edit: I tried this and it appears to overwrite the existing node. How else might you store the list of dates where a `Movie` was added to a `List` - like if a user wanted to keep track of their watching habits?

Additionally, it doesn't appear like I can request all Movies for playlists, and instead have to go in a roundabout way of getting the `date_added` as a separate result from the node:

```auto
{
  lists{
    moviesConnection {
      edges {
        date_added
        node {
          id
          name
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

```

which yields:

```auto
    "lists": [
      {
        "moviesConnection": {
          "edges": [
            {
              "date_added": "2021-11-13T04:00:16.943Z",
              "node": {
                "id": "10420d24-8056-442c-99e2-79935c0769cd",
                "name": "Transformers: The Last Knight"
              }
            }
          ]
        }
     }
   ]
}

```

rather than something like:

```auto
{
    lists: [
        movies [{
            id
            name
            date_added: ["11/12/2021", "11/06/2021", "11/02/2021"]
        }]
    ]
}

```

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**Author:** ![michael.hunger](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex021/user_avatar/community.neo4j.com/michael.hunger/32/27377_2.png) [@michael.hunger](https://community.neo4j.com/u/michael.hunger)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2021, 5:38pm UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/multiple-relationships-of-same-label-between-two-nodes-best-practices/47380/2 "2021-11-14T17:38:58Z")

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In principle it's not a problem but I don't know how well it is supported in the graphql library, esp. when creating/merging the relationships.

/cc @danstarns