Reference documentation and code samples for the Google Cloud Natural Language v1 API enum Entity.Types.Type.
The type of the entity. For most entity types, the associated metadata is a
Wikipedia URL (wikipedia_url) and Knowledge Graph MID (mid). The table
below lists the associated fields for entities that have different
metadata.
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