Response

The output from InformationExtractor is a list of the entities found in the input string. For example, if you selected an entity type of "Person," the output would be a list of the names found in the input string. Likewise, if you selected an entity type of "Date," the output would be a list of the dates found in the input string. Each entity (whether it be a name, address, date, and so on) is returned only once even if the entity appears multiple times in the input string.

Response Element

Description

Text

The text extracted from the string.

Type

The entity type of the extracted text. One of the following:
Address
CreditCard
Date
Email
HashTag
ISBN
Location
Mention
Organization
Person
Phone
ProperNouns
SSN
WebAddress
ZipCode

Count

If the option to return a count is enabled, this field contains the number of times that particular entity appeared in the input. For example, if you choose to return Name entities and the input text contains five instances of the name "John," the name "John" will be included in the output just one time, with "Name" as the entity type, and "5" as the output count.

Category

If you used a categorizer, the predicted category for each record in the input file.

Rank

If you used a categorizer, the rank of categories from highest count to lowest count.