About the

Finder: Named Entity Web Service

The Finder: Named Entity Web service is used to find UMBEL named entities that match a search string. This is the primary tool for finding available named entities from public UMBEL dictionaries.

When using this web service to search for named entities, you end-up searching for the labels composing the semset (mostly aliases or AKAs for named entity) labels — these are the alternate labels (and there may be many!) for the named entity with a wide variety of conventions and capitalizations. These are the variety of labels that might be encountered in general reading. For example, for the named entity Albrecht,_Duke_of_Bavaria, the semset labels include: Albrecht; Albrecht, Duke of Bavaria; Duke of Bavaria, etc.

There are three ways to use this Web service to query these different labels:

• Search within all labels — by selecting this option, you search both kinds of labels (case 1 & 2 & 3)
• Search for the named entityURI only — by selecting this option, you search the named entity URI string only (case 1)
• Search for the named entitypreferred label only — by selecting this option, you search the named entity preferred label only (case 2)
• Search for the named entity alternative labels only — by selecting this option, you search the named entity alternative labels only (semset labels) (case 3).

Searches using this Web service are not case sensitive (other UMBEL Web services may be).