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Similar

A link between two entities that are presumed to be the same, e.g. as the outcome of a probabilistic record linkage process.
  • Similar is a generated schema and shouldn’t be created directly by users.

Relations to other schemata

Similar has the following relations to other schemata in the model:

Relation Schemata
Properties inherited from: -
More precise schemata: -

Similar has multiple properties to describe its data. Some properties are inherited from its parent schemata.

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This property is used to compute a caption for the entity.

This property is a featured property, which means in UI applications it should be shown with higher information hierarchy.

This property is a matchable property and can be used in matching systems to find similar entities.

This property is a hidden property and should not be rendered in UI applications.

Name Label Type
Similar:confidenceScore Confidence score number
Similar:criteria Matching criteria string
Similar:candidate Candidate entity
Similar:match Match entity
Similar:matcher Matcher string

How to use it in a graph or timeline

FtM has well-defined semantics for different representations of entities, for example in a network graph or in a timeline.

When using this schema in a graph representation, it should be represented as a node.

Semantic Property
Temporal start -
Temporal end -