About
An entity is often a proper noun named item such as a person or company.
- companies
- people
- places
- products
- email addresses
- dates
Other sorts of entities like: publishers or medical terms.
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Task
Extraction
From document to Resource Description Framework (RDF)
Lookup
Matches entity extracted from text with terms in a reference table.
Tools
- Named Entity Recognition (NER) - Core Module
- Named Entity Disambiguation (NED). Named entity disambiguation can be used to identify and extract concepts from text.
Type
- companies: Entities that represent businesses
- lists: Simple list-based entities
- patterns: Entities identified by recognizable patterns (phone number)
- people: Entities that represent people
- places: Entities that represent geographical locations
- products: Entities that represent products
- queries: Query-defined entities
- regex: Entities extracted via regular expressions