UNWIND [ { title: "Cypher Basics I", created: datetime("2019-06-01T18:40:32.142+0100"), datePublished: date("2019-06-01"), readingTime: {minutes: 2, seconds: 15} }, { title: "Cypher Basics II", created: datetime("2019-06-02T10:23:32.122+0100"), datePublished: date("2019-06-02"), readingTime: {minutes: 2, seconds: 30} }, { title: "Dates, Datetimes, and Durations in Neo4j", created: datetime(), datePublished: date(), readingTime: {minutes: 3, seconds: 30} } ] AS articleProperties CREATE (article:Article {title: articleProperties.title}) SET article.created = articleProperties.created, article.datePublished = articleProperties.datePublished, article.readingTime = duration(articleProperties.readingTime) // https://neo4j.com/developer/cypher/dates-datetimes-durations/