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Entities are the who, what, and where's contained within a record (i.e. people, places, and things).
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The following parameters make up the manual entities configuration.
| Parameter | Description |
|---|---|
iterateOver | OPTIONAL: If specified, a metadata field (nesting supported using dot notation) which is looped over to generate calls with _value/_iterator/_index |
disambiguated_name | MANDATORY: String/script, the disambiguated name of the entity |
actual_name | OPTIONAL: String/script, the actual name of the entity if different to the disambiguated name |
dimension | MANDATORY: String/script: Must be/return one of "Who", "What", "Where" |
type | MANDATORY: String/script: It is recommended to use a type from the // OpenCyc, AlchemyAPI, or OpenCalais ontologies, for compatibility with future Infinit.e features |
linkdata | OPTIONAL: if present should return a comma-separated list of URLs (commas should be URL-encoded) |
relevance | OPTIONAL: String/script: Must specify/return a double/string-parsable-into-a-double |
sentiment | OPTIONAL: String/script: Must specify/return a double/string-parsable-into-a-double, by convention this is between -1.0 and 1.0. |
frequency | OPTIONAL: Must specify/return a long/string-parsable-into-a-long |
geotag | OPTIONAL: Format is identical to the docGeo format specified above "lat": "string", "lon": "string, "city": "string", "stateProvince": "string, "country": "string", "countryCode": "string |
ontology_type | OPTIONAL: String/script: Only used if geotag is specified: // allows specification of the scale of the geographic entity (see below for useful link), defaults to "point" |
useDocGeo | OPTIONAL: If true, uses any lat/long generated from the top level "docGeo" specification, defaults to false |
creationCriteriaScript | OPTIONAL: script: If populated, runs a user script function and if return value is false doesn't create the object |
Examples
Entities
In the example source, the entities block has been configured to set actual_name as a value which will be provided by the document metadata. Entities will expect a JSON object which is a representation of the Twitter user's display name.
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