kindred.Entity

class kindred.Entity(entityType, text, position, sourceEntityID=None, externalID=None, metadata=None)

Biomedical entity with information of location in text

Variables:

• entityType – Type of the entity
• text – Text of the entity
• position – Position within the text passage at which point entity appears. Entity may be non-contigious
• sourceEntityID – Entity ID used in source document
• externalID – ID associated with external ontology (e.g. Hugo Gene ID)
• metadata – Additional metadata about the the entity

Methods

__init__(entityType, text, position, sourceEntityID=None, externalID=None, metadata=None)

Constructor for Entity class

Parameters:

• entityType (str) – Type of the entity
• text (str) – Text of the entity
• position (list of tuples of two integers) – Position within the text passage at which point entity appears. Entity may be non-contigious
• sourceEntityID (str) – Entity ID used in source document
• externalID (str) – ID associated with external ontology (e.g. Hugo Gene ID)
• metadata (dict) – Additional metadata about the the entity

clone()

Clones the entity

Returns:Clone of the entity Return type:kindred.Entity