Percentage prebuilt entity for a LUIS app

Percentage numbers can appear as fractions, 3 1/2, or as percentage, 2%. Because this entity is already trained, you do not need to add example utterances containing percentage to the application intents. Percentage entity is supported in many cultures.

Types of percentage

Percentage is managed from the Recognizers-text GitHub repository

Resolution for prebuilt percentage entity

The following entity objects are returned for the query:

set a trigger when my stock goes up 2%

V3 response

The following JSON is with the verbose parameter set to false:

"entities": {
    "percentage": [
        2
    ]
}

V3 verbose response

The following JSON is with the verbose parameter set to true:

"entities": {
    "percentage": [
        2
    ],
    "$instance": {
        "percentage": [
            {
                "type": "builtin.percentage",
                "text": "2%",
                "startIndex": 36,
                "length": 2,
                "modelTypeId": 2,
                "modelType": "Prebuilt Entity Extractor",
                "recognitionSources": [
                    "model"
                ]
            }
        ]
    }
}

V2 response

The following example shows the resolution of the builtin.percentage entity.

"entities": [
    {
        "entity": "2%",
        "type": "builtin.percentage",
        "startIndex": 36,
        "endIndex": 37,
        "resolution": {
        "value": "2%"
        }
    }
]

Next steps

Learn more about the V3 prediction endpoint.

Learn about the ordinal, number, and temperature entities.