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Entity - Amazon Comprehend API Reference

Entity

Provides information about an entity.

Contents

BeginOffset

The zero-based offset from the beginning of the source text to the first character in the entity.

This field is empty for non-text input.

Type: Integer

Required: No

BlockReferences

A reference to each block for this entity. This field is empty for plain-text input.

Type: Array of BlockReference objects

Required: No

EndOffset

The zero-based offset from the beginning of the source text to the last character in the entity.

This field is empty for non-text input.

Type: Integer

Required: No

Score

The level of confidence that Amazon Comprehend has in the accuracy of the detection.

Type: Float

Required: No

Text

The text of the entity.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1.

Required: No

Type

The entity type. For entity detection using the built-in model, this field contains one of the standard entity types listed below.

For custom entity detection, this field contains one of the entity types that you specified when you trained your custom model.

Type: String

Valid Values: PERSON | LOCATION | ORGANIZATION | COMMERCIAL_ITEM | EVENT | DATE | QUANTITY | TITLE | OTHER

Required: No

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

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