NYT Entity Service

A web service for disambiguating entities.

Your application can POST some JSON to the service with a name to match and some optional flags describing how to process your request. The service will return a UUID that will uniquely identify this entity across a variety of applications.

Alternately, if you're writing Python, you can use our entity uploader.

Coming soon: An admin interface for combining / deduplicating entities and for searching / exploring entities.

Usage

Example: Entity Uploader

See the entity uploader docs for more.

Example: Raw JSON

Required fields

• name, string: The entity's name, e.g., Bank of America or Jared Kushner.

Optional fields

• create_if_below, integer, 0-100: If the fuzzy match score is below this threshold, a new entity will be created. Default: 80

POST data

{
  "name": "Bank of America N.A.",
  "create_if_below": 80,
}

Response data

{
  "request": {
    "name": "Bank of America, N.A.",
    "create_if_below": 80,
  },
  "response": {
    "name": "Bank of America",
    "score": 95,
    "uuid": "ccb4e4c1-b3de-4688-b036-97550c717103",
    "created": false
  }
}