How Textual handles entity values that match multiple types

A detected value might match multiple entity types.

For example, a telephone number might match both the Phone Number and Numeric Value entity types.

On most dataset details views, each value is only counted once, for the entity type that it is assigned in the output file. The Analytics page under Entities analysis allows you to choose whether to include a value in the counts for all of the types that it matches.

By default, a detected value is assigned the entity type that it most closely matches. For our example, the telephone number value most closely matches the Phone Number entity type, and so by default is included in the Phone Number count and values list.

If the entity type is ignored, or the value is excluded, then Textual moves the value to the next matching type.

In our example, if you set the handling option for Phone Number to Ignore, then the telephone number value is added to the count and values list for the Numeric Value entity type.