Named Entity

A named entity is an entity that has been assigned a name.

• Context:
  • It can range from being a Named Singleton to being a Named Set.
  • It can be the referent to a Named Entity Referencer (such as a named entity mention or a named entity record).
• Example(s):
  • the planet Venus which has names: "morning star" and "evening star".
  • any Named Person, such as: Michael Jackson, which can be referenced by a Named Entity Record such as [Type="Person", Name.First="Michael", Name.Last="Jackson", BirthDate="August 29, 1958", Birth.City="Gary", Birth.State="Indiana", Birth.Country="USA"], an Explicit Person Record)
  • any Named Location, such as: “Mumbai” (or temporarily as “Bombay”), which can be reference by a Toponym Record.
  • most Online Services, such as: “Wikipedia”, “Google Scholar”, and “Amazon.com”.
  • a Titled Books, such as: “Advanced Calculus”, which can be referenced by a Citation Record such as [Type="Citation", Title="Advanced Calculus"], a Citation Record.
  • a Named Protein, such as: “Hemoglobin” and “47 kDasterol regulatory element binding factor”.
  • most Organizations, such as “Microsoft Inc.”, “UNICEF”, “WHO”.
  • a Program Variable.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Named Entity Mention, which is a referencer to a named entity.
  • an Unnamed Entity, such as a table, an unnamed location, or an atom
  • a Named Entity Class, such as “Escherichia Coli”
  • a Natural Language, such a the English Language?
  • A Synset <SYNSET><ID>ENG20-00001740-n</ID><POS>n</POS><SYNONYM><LITERAL>entity<SENSE>1</SENSE></LITERAL></SYNONYM><DEF>that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving)</DEF><BCS>2</BCS><DOMAIN>factotum</DOMAIN><SUMO>Physical<TYPE>=</TYPE></SUMO></SYNSET>, from a Wordnet Database.
• See: Proper Noun.

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References

2011

• (Wiktionary - Named, 2011-Jun-10) ⇒ http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/named#Adjective
  • QUOTE: Having a name
• (Wiktionary - Entity, 2011-Jun-10) ⇒ http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/entity#Noun
  • QUOTE: That which has a distinct existence as an individual unit. Often used for organisations which have no physical form.

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