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description: Part of the GCP Natural Language processor family
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# Entity Types

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This page pertains to information returned from the AnalyzeEntitiesWithSentiment, AnalyzeEntities, and AnnotateText processors.
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Every entity returned from GCP's Natural Language API can take a type, which identifies what kind of thing the API thinks the text represents. They are represented as a string whose value is that which is present in the _Identifier_ field of the following table.

| Identifier      | Description                                                                                      |
| --------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| `ADDRESS`       | Identifies the street number and locality, plus whichever additional elements appear in the text |
| `CONSUMER_GOOD` | A consumer product                                                                               |
| `DATE`          | Identifies the components of a date                                                              |
| `EVENT`         | An event                                                                                         |
| `LOCATION`      | A location (not to be confused with an address)                                                  |
| `NUMBER`        | A numerical value                                                                                |
| `ORGANIZATION`  | A large organization, such as a government                                                       |
| `OTHER`         | An entity the API couldn't categorize into anything else                                         |
| `PERSON`        | An individual or name                                                                            |
| `PHONE_NUMBER`  | A phone number, formatted according to local convention                                          |
| `PRICE`         |                                                                                                  |
| `UNKNOWN`       |                                                                                                  |
| `UNRECOGNIZED`  |                                                                                                  |
| `WORK_OF_ART`   |                                                                                                  |
