Questions tagged [entity]

Questions about Entity expressions and the use of standardized representations of specific real-world entities.

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What procedures do you take to find the right Entity?

What procedures are there to find entities ? I understand little about entities. I use free form input or wolfram alpha as a cry for help. What systematic procedures are there for narrowing down a search ? Maybe some sort of iterative procedure…
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Using EntityStore and related functions in a NoSQL-database scenario

In a lot of engineering tasks one ends up with massive amounts of .txt or .csv files from various measurement systems (oscilloscopes, temperature probes etc.) that usually end up on a local or central disk storage with some cryptic filename and no…
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How do I find the list of values for an EntityProperty qualifier?

Cross-Post on Wolfram Community I have an EntityProperty and I know how to get its list of qualifiers. Now how do I figure out the possible values these can take programmatically? Here's an example to get us started: EntityValue[ …
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Multiple Filters on EntityClass Issue

I'm trying to get a subset of companies using EntityClass by revenue and industry but it won't let me combine the properties? See below example, I can find Walmart via revenue or industry but not by both? Multiple conditions work when I use a…
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How can I create my own entity type with dated properties?

I tried to create my own entity type in which entities have dated properties. But I can't find any helpful documentation on that matter. And every try failed. I tried store = EntityStore[ "t" -> <| "Entities" -> <| "e1" ->…
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How can I get the time zone of a US ZIP code?

There does not seem to be a direct way to extract the time zone for a ZIP code. Currently, I am first mapping the ZIP code to the states, and then getting the time zones for those states. "94402" // Entity["ZIPCode", #] & // EntityValue[#,…
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How to convert entity to string?

I have an entity city. For example, I run {city} = GeoNearest["City", GeoPosition[{41.8, -87.7}]] and then I got The entity "Chicago" as my output of city. I want to have the string "Chicago" instead entity "Chicago" as output. How can I convert…
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Cases and Entity

When extracting the "name" of an Entity one has CommonName. Good. Before I discovered this, I simply applied a rule like: en = Entity["Language", "English"]; en /. Entity[a_, b_] :> b (* out: "English"*) Maybe I´m missing something stupid, but why…
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How do I perform complex queries on Entity data?

I'd like to query, for example, the Entity["MusicWork"] data for something like "all music works whose names contain the word 'Funk'". Or even "plot a date histogram by year of the number of works whose name contains the word 'Funk', as a fraction…
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Convert Company Entity to Finance Entity

Is there an easy/straightforward way to get the corresponding Finance entity given a Company entity if it’s available? I have a hack-y fix just y taking the “Name” property for the Company and passing that into FinanceData though this does not work…
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How do I find the list of available qualifiers for a given EntityProperty?

If you read the docs for EntityProperty you see it can be used with EntityValue to perform qualified selections of data, improving efficiency of queries, etc. Unfortunately the docs only say this: EntityProperty[type,…
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Errors on entity CrystalSystem

Following the tutorial on Exploring Symmetries of Crystal Systems and using the code below: Clear["Global`*"]; symmetryprops = {"Entity", "RequiredPointGroupSymmetries", "CrystallographicPointGroups", "CrystallographicSpaceGroups",…
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Does ElementData have less information than Element Entity?

Sort[ElementData[EntityClass["Element", "Radioactive"], "Name"]] == Sort[EntityValue[EntityClass["Element", "Radioactive"], "Name"]] gives True However, EntityValue gives more complete information when querying "Density" Is it a bug in…
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ZipCode data for historical dates

I am trying to get historical values of certain properties of a ZIPCode entity. To get the current data I write: EntityValue[Entity["ZIPCode","60007"],"AverageHouseValue"] How can I get historical data? Thanks!
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Extracting info from Entities

I am trying to look up data of entities, but I imagine I'm not doing it right, or have misunderstood the structure. Here, I try the extract the values of the new SI defining constants, which are embedded deeply in the structure of the…
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