Named Entity Recognition Grammars Package 26.3
Named Entity Recognition Grammars User Guide

# Entities supported for the country de

The following entities are supported for the country de (Germany)

entity | description | example
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address | A postal address. In general, a score of one is given to an address that includes a numbered, common format street address (for example "23 North Road"), a known city (for example "London"), and a postal code in a viable format for the country (for example "SW1A 2AA"). Deviations from this form lead to score penalties. The ordering of these elements varies by country. OpenText recommends that you use prefiltering to improve the performance for this grammar. See Configure Prefiltering. This entity returns the addresses in a normalized format by default. The normalized form standardizes apartment and house numbers, expands shortened forms of region names, removes additional punctuation, and converts the text to uppercase. For example "ABIDEI HURRIYET CD TANER PALAS APT 9, KAT:7, D:9, 34437 ISTANBUL". The exact order depends on the country. You can turn off normalization by setting normalize_addresses=false in the address_stoplist.lua script. This option can improve performance when you do not need normalization. | Hostatostrasse 16,65929,Frankfurt Postfach 3 41 41, 10724 BERLIN, GERMANY Wohnung 27 Hostatostrasse 16, 65929, Frankfurt
address/city/context | A city or town, with context. | Stadt: Frankfurt
address/city/landmark | A city or town landmark. | Stadt
address/city/nocontext | A known city or town, without context. | Frankfurt
address/city/speculative/nocontext | Any city or town, without context. | Much
address/country/context | A country, with context. | land: Deutschland
address/country/landmark | A country landmark. | land
address/country/nocontext | A country, without context. | Deutschland
address/landmark | A postal address landmark. | Anschrift
address/postcode/context | A postal code, with context. | Postleitzahl: 65929
address/postcode/landmark | A postal code landmark. | Postleitzahl
address/postcode/nocontext | A postal code, without context. | 65929
address/streetlocation/context | A street location (house number and street name), with context. | Postanschrift: Hostatostrasse 16 Postanschrift: Postfach 3 41 41 Postanschrift: Wohnung 27 Hostatostrasse 16
address/streetlocation/landmark | A street location landmark. | Postanschrift
address/streetlocation/nocontext | A street location (house number and street name), without context. | Hostatostrasse 16 Postfach 3 41 41 Wohnung 27 Hostatostrasse 16
banking/account_number/context | An individual bank account number, with context. | Kontonummer: 1234567
banking/account_number/landmark | An individual bank account number landmark. | Kontonummer
banking/account_number/nocontext | An individual bank account number, without context. | 1234567
banking/context | Bank account numbers sufficient to identify an individual account, with context. | Kontonummer: 100-000-00 12345678
banking/iban/context | An International Bank Account Number (IBAN), with context. The IBAN number can have spaces, hyphens (-), or periods (.) as delimiters between different components of the IBAN. | IBAN: DE75 512 108 001 245 126 199 IBAN: DE75512108001245126199
banking/iban/nocontext | An International Bank Account Number (IBAN), without context. | DE75 512 108 001 245 126 199 DE75512108001245126199
banking/landmark | A bank account landmark. | Kontonummer
banking/nocontext | Bank account numbers sufficient to identify an individual account, without context. | 100-000-00 12345678
banking/routing_number/context | A routing number, usually used to identify a bank branch, with context. | BLZ: 640 901 00
banking/routing_number/landmark | A routing number landmark. | BLZ
banking/routing_number/nocontext | A routing number, usually used to identify a bank branch, without context. | 640 901 00
banking/swiftcode/context | A SWIFT/BIC code, with context. | SWIFT Number: XXXXDE00BBB
banking/swiftcode/nocontext | A SWIFT/BIC code, without context. | XXXXDE00BBB
driving/context | A driving license number with context. This entity matches both the driving license number, and the personal number or driver number, if present. On the standard European driving license, these are fields 5 and 4d.1 By default, when there are multiple possible matches, post-processing returns only one country, which is the most efficient option. You can enable ambiguous entity matching by setting ambiguous_entities=true in the pii_postprocessing.lua script. This option returns multiple possible country matches. | Führerschein: B702RRE2I55
driving/landmark | A driving license landmark. | Führerschein
driving/nocontext | A driving license number, without context.2 By default, when there are multiple possible matches, post-processing returns only one country, which is the most efficient option. You can enable ambiguous entity matching by setting ambiguous_entities=true in the pii_postprocessing.lua script. This option returns multiple possible country matches. | B702RRE2I55
health/ehic/context | An EHIC personal identification number with context. | Europäische Krankenversicherungskarte: A123456789
health/ehic/landmark | An EHIC landmark | Europäische Krankenversicherungskarte
health/ehic/nocontext | An EHIC personal identification number without context. | A123456789
id/context | A national identity number with context. For information about the supported ID numbers, see Supported National ID Numbers. | Personalausweis: T22000129 RVNR: 15 070649 M 105
id/landmark | A national identity number landmark.3 By default, when there are multiple possible matches, post-processing returns only one country, which is the most efficient option. You can enable ambiguous entity matching by setting ambiguous_entities=true in the pii_postprocessing.lua script. This option returns multiple possible country matches. | Personalausweis RVNR
id/nocontext | A national identity number without context. For information about the supported ID numbers, see Supported National ID Numbers.4 By default, when there are multiple possible matches, post-processing returns only one country, which is the most efficient option. You can enable ambiguous entity matching by setting ambiguous_entities=true in the pii_postprocessing.lua script. This option returns multiple possible country matches. | 15 070649 M 105 T22000129
internet/email/context | An email address, with context. | elektronische Mail: jsmith@mailserver.com
internet/email/landmark | An email address landmark. | elektronische Mail
internet/email/nocontext | An email address, without context. | jsmith@mailserver.com
name | A full personal name. Romanized names can be in title case or upper case, and can be in the order given name surname or surname given name. CJKVT native script names must be surname given name. For Japanese, either form can include honorifics.5 This entity returns the names in a normalized format, in the form GIVEN NAME SURNAME, for example JOHN SMITH. You can turn off normalization by setting normalize_names=false in the name_stoplist.lua script. You can also turn off score adjustment, by setting rescore_names=false in the name_stoplist.lua script. This option can improve performance when you do not need the normalization or score refinement. | Frau J. Schäfer Jürgen Schäfer Kathi van Zunker QC
name/given_name/context | A given name with context. For CJKVT the context landmark should be in CJKVT native script. | Vorname: Jürgen
name/given_name/landmark | A given name landmark. For CJKVT it will be in native script. | Vorname
name/given_name/nocontext | A given name, without context. | Jürgen
name/landmark | A full name landmark. | Name
name/post_title | A title that follows a name. | QC
name/pre_title | A title that precedes a name. | Frau
name/surname/context | A surname with context. For CJKVT the landmark will be in native script | Nachname: Schäfer
name/surname/landmark | A surname landmark. | Nachname
name/surname/nocontext | A surname without context. | Schäfer
name/title_surname | A title and surname. | Dr Schäfer Frau van Schäfer
nationality/adj/context | A nationality adjective with context. | NATIONALITÄT: deutsch
nationality/adj/landmark | A nationality adjective landmark. | NATIONALITÄT
nationality/adj/nocontext | A nationality adjective without context. | deutsch
nationality/any/context | Any combination of nationality adjective and noun landmark and value. | Land: Deutschland
nationality/any/landmark | Any nationality adjective or landmark. | Land
nationality/any/nocontext | Any nationality adjective or noun. | Deutschland
nationality/noun/context | A nationality noun with context. | Land: Deutschland
nationality/noun/landmark | A nationality noun landmark. | Land
nationality/noun/nocontext | A nationality noun without context. | Deutschland
passport/context | A passport number with context. | reisepass: C748TJ1K2
passport/landmark | A passport landmark. For information about cases where the landmark and passport number do not match or have an ambiguous match, see Ambiguous Entities. | reisepass
passport/nocontext | A passport number without context. | C748TJ1K2
postcode/context | A postal code with context. | Postleitzahl: 65929
postcode/landmark | A postal code landmark. | Postleitzahl
postcode/nocontext | A postal code without context. | 65929
telephone/context | A telephone number with context. For the telephone_cjkvt grammar, numbers can be ASCII or full-width numbers. This entity returns the telephone number in the normalized format +NNNNN, starting with the country code. For example +12012224344.6 To ensure that this entity performs correctly, set your TangibleCharacters configuration to include the following characters: ()+-. For more information, see Configure Tangible Characters. | Funktelefon: +49 (0) 30 20457 0
telephone/landmark | A telephone number landmark. For the telephone_cjkvt grammar, landmarks are available only in CJKVT native script. | Funktelefon
telephone/nocontext | A telephone number without context. For the telephone_cjkvt grammar, numbers can be ASCII or full-width numbers. This entity returns the telephone number in the normalized format +NNNNN, starting with the country code. For example +12042439955.7 To ensure that this entity performs correctly, set your TangibleCharacters configuration to include the following characters: ()+-. For more information, see Configure Tangible Characters. | +49 (0) 30 20457 0
tin/context | A tax identification number with context. For more examples, see Example Tax Identification Numbers.8 By default, when there are multiple possible matches, post-processing returns only one country, which is the most efficient option. You can enable ambiguous entity matching by setting ambiguous_entities=true in the pii_postprocessing.lua script. This option returns multiple possible country matches. | Steuer-Identifikationsnummer: 26954371827
tin/landmark | A tax identification number landmark. | Steuer-Identifikationsnummer
tin/nocontext | A tax identification number without context. For more examples, see Example Tax Identification Numbers.9 By default, when there are multiple possible matches, post-processing returns only one country, which is the most efficient option. You can enable ambiguous entity matching by setting ambiguous_entities=true in the pii_postprocessing.lua script. This option returns multiple possible country matches. | 26954371827
tin/vatin/context | A VAT identification number with context. | USt-IdNr: DE111111125
tin/vatin/landmark | A VAT identification number landmark. | USt-IdNr
tin/vatin/nocontext | A VAT identification number without context. | DE111111125

In the tables, ✔️ indicates that the item is always used, and ❌ that the item is never used. The ✓ symbol indicates that the item is only used for some entities (that is, for some but not all countries or languages). For details, refer to the relevant entity page.

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