The API returns a list of recognized entities in a given document.
The API returns a list of recognized entities in a given document. To get even more information on each recognized entity we recommend using the Bing Entity Search API by querying for the recognized entities names. See the <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/text-analytics/text-analytics-supported-languages">Supported languages in Text Analytics API</a> for the list of enabled languages.The API returns a list of known entities and general named entities ("Person", "Location", "Organization" etc) in a given document. Known entities are returned with Wikipedia Id and Wikipedia link, and also Bing Id which can be used in Bing Entity Search API. General named entities are returned with entity types. If a general named entity is also a known entity, then all information regarding it (Wikipedia Id, Bing Id, entity type etc) will be returned. See the <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/text-analytics/how-tos/text-analytics-how-to-entity-linking#supported-types-for-named-entity-recognition">Supported Entity Types in Text Analytics API</a> for the list of supported Entity Types. See the <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/text-analytics/text-analytics-supported-languages">Supported languages in Text Analytics API</a> for the list of enabled languages.
Request body
Example request
{
"documents": [
{
"language": "en",
"id": "1",
"text": "Hello world. This is some input text that I love."
},
{
"language": "fr",
"id": "2",
"text": "Bonjour tout le monde"
},
{
"language": "es",
"id": "3",
"text": "La carretera estaba atascada. Había mucho tráfico el día de ayer."
}
]
}Response
A successful call results in a list of recognized entities returned for each valid document