entity

This page documents the entity canonical concept dataset. The complete XML file is also available for review.

Basic Info

Name Entity concepts
Description Entity concepts.
Namespace http://www.google.com/publicdata/dataset/google/entity
URL http://code.google.com/apis/publicdata/docs/canonical/entity.html

Provider

Name Google Inc.
Description Google Inc.
URL http://www.google.com

Imported Namespaces

No imported namespaces.

Topics

No topics defined.

Concepts

Concept: entity

ID entity [XML]
Name Entity
Type string
Description Base concept for defining concepts that represent entities.
Attributes
entity_order
ID
(implied)		 entity_order [XML]
Concept entity_order
Properties
name
description
info_url
color
ID name [XML]
Name Name
Type string
Description The name used to display an entity. Example: 
  <concept id="airport" extends="entity:entity">
    <info>
      <name>
        <value>Airport</value>
      </name>
      <description>
        <value>Airports, identified by their 3-letter IATA code</value>
      </description>
    </info>
    <table ref="airports_table"/>
  </concept>

The airports_table contains a “name” column, with the name of each airport: 
  airport,name
  MLB,Melbourne International Airport
  SFO,San Francisco International Airport
  LGW,London Gatwick Airport

Note: names can be provided in multiple languages, in different columns, using concept table mappings.
ID description [XML]
Name Description
Type string
Description The description of an entity. Usage example: 
  <concept id="airport" extends="entity:entity">
    <info>
      <name>
        <value>Airport</value>
      </name>
      <description>
        <value>Airports, identified by their 3-letter IATA code</value>
      </description>
    </info>
    <table ref="airports_table"/>
  </concept>

The airports_table contains a “description” column, with a description of each airport: 
              
  airport,name,description
  MLB,Melbourne International Airport, "... located 1 1/2 miles northwest of the downtown business district ..."
  SFO,San Francisco International Airport, "... international airport located 13 miles south of San Francisco ..."
  LGW, London Gatwick Airport,  "... located 5 km (3.1 mi) north of the centre of Crawley, West Sussex ..."
  LHR, London Heathrow Airport, "... largest airport in the United Kingdom ..."
ID info_url [XML]
Name Info Url
Type string
Description A URL where more information can be found about an entity. Usage example: 
  <concept id="airport" extends="entity:entity">
    <info>
      <name>
        <value>Airport</value>
      </name>
      <description>
        <value>Airports, identified by their 3-letter IATA code</value>
      </description>
    </info>
    <table ref="airports_table"/>
  </concept>

The countries table contains an “info_url” column, with an info URL for each country. 
  country,  name,          info_url
  AD,       Andorra,       http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andorra
  AF,       Afghanistan,   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghanistan
  AI,       Anguilla,      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anguilla
  AL,       Albania,       http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albania
ID color [XML]
Name Color
Type string
Description A color, represented by its hexadecimal code (e.g., "#FFAB00"). Example: 
  <concept id="us_political_party" extends="entity:entity">
    <info>
      <name>
        <value>US Political party</value>
      </name>
    </info>
    <table ref="parties_table"/>
  </concept>

The parties_table contains a party_color column: 
  party, name,             color
  rep,   Republican party, #FF0000
  dem,   Democratic party, #0000FF

Concept: entity_order

ID entity_order [XML]
Name Entity order
Type string
Data entity_order_table
Description Specifies the order in which the entities should be displayed. ALPHA is alphabetical order, TABLE is the order of entities in the table. Example: 
  <concept id="industry" extends="entity:entity">
    <info>
      <name>
        <value xml:lang="en">Industry</value>
      </name>
    </info>
    <attribute id="order">
      <value>NATURAL</value>
    </attribute>
    <property id="industry" isParent="true"/>
    <table ref="industries_tbl"/>
  </concept>
Attributes No local attributes.
Properties No local properties.

Slices

No slices defined.

Tables

Table: entity_order_table

ID entity_order_table [XML]
Data entity_order.csv [CSV]
Columns
Name Type
entity_order string