"Person" (Text Content Type)

Text identified as the name of a person.

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"Person" can be used in TextCases, TextPosition and TextContents.
"Person" corresponds to any mention of a person (real or not real) in the context of the text.
Homonyms of people that are not people should not be detected as "Person" (if the context allows disambiguation).
TextCases[…,"Person""Interpretation"] attempts to return entities of type "Person", as Interpreter["Person"] does.
Any specific "Person" entity such as
can also be used as a content type in TextCases, TextPosition and TextContents.

Find occurrences of people in a text:

Get the result as a list of "Person" entities:

A similar result can be obtained by applying Interpreter["Person"] to text snippets:

Get properties about occurrences of people:

Find mentions of Allan Dwan in a text:

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