PersonName prebuilt entity for a LUIS app

The prebuilt personName entity detects people names. Because this entity is already trained, you do not need to add example utterances containing personName to the application intents. personName entity is supported in English and Chinese cultures.

Resolution for personName entity

The following entity objects are returned for the query:

Is Jill Jones in Cairo?

V3 response

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

"entities": {
    "personName": [
        "Jill Jones"
    ]
}

V3 verbose response

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

"entities": {
    "personName": [
        "Jill Jones"
    ],
    "$instance": {
        "personName": [
            {
                "type": "builtin.personName",
                "text": "Jill Jones",
                "startIndex": 3,
                "length": 10,
                "modelTypeId": 2,
                "modelType": "Prebuilt Entity Extractor",
                "recognitionSources": [
                    "model"
                ]
            }
        ],
    }
}

V2 response

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

"entities": [
{
    "entity": "Jill Jones",
    "type": "builtin.personName",
    "startIndex": 3,
    "endIndex": 12
}
]

Next steps

Learn more about the V3 prediction endpoint.

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