Discussion

The Discussion entity type encompasses forum and other similar discussions found throughout the web and known to the Knowledge Graph.

Note that fields are not guaranteed to exist in every entity record.

For convenience, a complete ontology source in JSON format is also available here.

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Discussion Fields

crawlTimestamp
diffbotUri
id
language
nextPage
nextPages
numPages
numParticipants
numPosts
pageUrl
posts
provider
resolvedPageUrl
rssUrl
tags
title
type
types

Discussion Field Details

Note that certain longer field examples may be truncated for readability.

crawlTimestamp

Last time a site was crawled/indexed

Type: Integer
Example:

{
	"crawlTimestamp": 0
}

diffbotUri

diffbotUri is a combination of an entityID and a corresponding web address or uniform resource identifier (URI), which is defined by appending the entityID to the URL https://www.diffbot.com/entity/;. For example, Diffbot's entityID is CWSwJ_SWQPfqO3HQsxY4lGg and its DiffbotUri is https://www.diffbot.com/entity/CWSwJ_SWQPfqO3HQsxY4lGg

Type: String
Example:

{
	"diffbotUri": ""
}

id

Each entity in the Diffbot KnowledgeGraph (DKG) is identified by a unique identifier, an alphanumeric string like CWSwJ_SWQPfqO3HQsxY4lGg that uniquely identifies that entity. The id is directly derived from the most authoritative origin from the origins array.

Type: String
Example:

{
	"id": ""
}

language

Refers to the language which a Discussion is written

Type: String
Example:

{
	"language": ""
}

If discussion spans multiple pages, nextPage will return the subsequent page URL

Type: String
Example:

{
	"nextPage": ""
}

Array of all page URLs concatenated in a multipage discussion

Type: String
Example:

{
	"nextPages": ""
}

numPages

Type: Integer
Example:

{
	"numPages": 0
}

numParticipants

Number of unique participants in the discussion thread or comments

Type: Integer
Example:

{
	"numParticipants": 0
}

numPosts

Type: Integer
Example:

{
	"numPosts": 0
}

pageUrl

URL of submitted page / page from which the entity is extracted

Type: String
Example:

{
	"pageUrl": ""
}

posts

Type: DiscussionPost
Example:

{
	"posts": [
		{
			"date": {
				"str": "",
				"precision": 0,
				"timestamp": 0
			},
			"sentiment": "",
			"images": [
				{
					"displayHeight": 0,
					"xpath": "",
					"breadcrumb": [
						{
							"link": "",
							"name": ""
						}
					],
					"displayWidth": 0,
					"naturalHeight": 0,
					"language": "",
					"links": "",
					"anchorUrl": "",
					"title": "",
					"url": "",
					"naturalWidth": 0,
					"tags": [
						{
							"score": "",
							"sentiment": "",
							"types": "",
							"count": 0,
							"label": "",
							"uri": ""
						}
					]
				}
			],
			"author": "",
			"authorUrl": "",
			"language": "",
			"html": "",
			"pageUrl": "",
			"text": ""
		}
	]
}

provider

Type: String
Example:

{
	"provider": ""
}

resolvedPageUrl

Returned if the pageUrl redirects to another URL

Type: String
Example:

{
	"resolvedPageUrl": ""
}

rssUrl

Type: String
Example:

{
	"rssUrl": ""
}

title

Title of the Article

Type: String
Example:

{
	"title": ""
}

type

The top-level type of a Diffbot entity. Examples of type include Person, Organization, Article, Product.

Type: Type
Example:

{
	"type": ""
}

types

There are tags.types which can only refer to dbpedia rdf types, while there are also the general DiffbotEntity types which is just an array of all the types an object belongs to. For instance a LocalBusiness would have `types:["Organization","LocalBusiness"]` Finally, there are types that indicate a belonging to a subgroup such as business vs personal email address.

Type: String
Example:

{
	"types": ""
}