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Attributes available to event entities in the Knowledge Graph.

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The Event entity type encompasses webinars, meet ups, conferences, and other events 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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Event Fields

Event Field Details

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

allDescriptions

All descriptions found for this entity. For the best description, refer to the field 'description'.

  • Type: String
  • Example:
{
	"allDescriptions": [
		"Talent Connect is LinkedIn’s game-changing annual customer conference. The 10-year anniversary of the talent community coming together will be the best one yet. For 3 days, you and 4,000+ like-minded customers will hear inspiring speakers, ignite your passion for building winning teams and changing people’s lives, and kick back with friends at Instagram-worthy parties."
	]
}

allNames

All names used, including nicknames, full names and transliterations to other languages.

  • Type: String
  • Example:
{
	"allNames": [
		"Talent Connect 2019"
	]
}

allOriginHashes

For Diffbot's internal use only.

  • Type: String
  • Example:
{
	"allOriginHashes": [
		"O6ZAJFLkMXGusaTAzKwXMQ"
	]
}

allUriDetails

Additional information about each URI in 'allUris', which lists the URIs associated with this entity.

  • Type: UriDetails
  • Example:
{
	"allUriDetails": [
		{
			"domainMonthlyTrafficGrowth": "",
			"domainMonthlyTraffic": 0,
			"redirectsTo": "",
			"nbFollowing": 0,
			"uriType": "",
			"verified": false,
			"nbLinkedAccounts": 0,
			"nbFollowers": 0,
			"httpCodeTimestamp": 0,
			"httpCode": "",
			"uri": ""
		}
	]
}

allUris

All URIs associated with an entity. A URI (uniform resource identifier) is a page on the web that describes an entity (e.g., an company's homepage or a person's social network profile).

  • Type: URL
  • Example:
{
	"allUris": [
		"crunchbase.com/event/talent-connect-2019"
	]
}

categories

Array of categories which represent the abstract subject of the entity

  • Type: KGCategory
  • Example:
{
	"categories": [
		{
			"score": "",
			"name": "",
			"id": ""
		}
	]
}

crawlTimestamp

The default crawlTimestamp is the most recent date of all of the crawlTimestamps of the origins used to compute the Entity, returned as a UNIX time.

  • Type: Integer
  • Example:
{
	"crawlTimestamp": 1728975619
}

description

A few sentences describing an entity

  • Type: String
  • Example:
{
	"description": "Talent Connect is LinkedIn’s game-changing annual customer conference. The 10-year anniversary of the talent community coming together will be the best one yet. For 3 days, you and 4,000+ like-minded customers will hear inspiring speakers, ignite your passion for building winning teams and changing people’s lives, and kick back with friends at Instagram-worthy parties."
}

descriptors

A list of free-form keywords describing this entity

  • Type: String
  • Example:
{
	"descriptors": ""
}

diffbotUri

diffbotUri is the URI an entity's (URI), which is defined by appending the Diffbot ID to the URL https://diffbot.com/entity/. For example, Diffbot's entityID is CWSwJ_SWQPfqO3HQsxY4lGg and its DiffbotUri is https://diffbot.com/entity/CWSwJ_SWQPfqO3HQsxY4lGg

  • Type: URL
  • Example:
{
	"diffbotUri": "http://diffbot.com/entity/EO6ZAJFLkMXGusaTAzKwXMQ"
}

endDateTime

Event start date and time in GMT

  • Type: DDateTime
  • Example:
{
	"endDateTime": {
		"str": "d2019-09-27T00:00",
		"precision": 4,
		"timestamp": 1569542400000
	}
}

humanLanguage

Refers to the language in which the event is published

  • Type: Language
  • Example:
{
	"humanLanguage": {}
}

id

An alphanumeric string like CWSwJ_SWQPfqO3HQsxY4lGg that uniquely identifies an entity.

  • Type: String
  • Example:
{
	"id": "EO6ZAJFLkMXGusaTAzKwXMQ"
}

image

The main image used to represent the entity.

  • Type: String
  • Example:
{
	"image": ""
}

images

The visual representation of an entity usually in the form of a png, jpeg, gif, or svg file.

  • Type: ImageField
  • Example:
{
	"images": [
		{
			"classifications": "",
			"fingerprint": "",
			"title": "",
			"isCached": false,
			"url": ""
		}
	]
}

importance

A number between 0 and 100 indicating how important or popular an entity is.

  • Type: Float
  • Example:
{
	"importance": 1.671032190322876
}

location

The location of the event.

  • Type: Location
  • Example:
{
	"location": {
		"venue": "",
		"country": {
			"summary": "",
			"image": "",
			"images": [
				{
					"classifications": "",
					"fingerprint": "",
					"title": "",
					"isCached": false,
					"url": ""
				}
			],
			"types": "",
			"diffbotUri": "",
			"name": "",
			"targetDiffbotUri": ""
		},
		"address": "",
		"city": {
			"summary": "",
			"image": "",
			"images": [
				{
					"classifications": "",
					"fingerprint": "",
					"title": "",
					"isCached": false,
					"url": ""
				}
			],
			"types": "",
			"diffbotUri": "",
			"name": "",
			"targetDiffbotUri": ""
		},
		"subregion": {
			"summary": "",
			"image": "",
			"images": [
				{
					"classifications": "",
					"fingerprint": "",
					"title": "",
					"isCached": false,
					"url": ""
				}
			],
			"types": "",
			"diffbotUri": "",
			"name": "",
			"targetDiffbotUri": ""
		},
		"latitude": "",
		"precision": "",
		"postalCode": "",
		"locationType": [],
		"surfaceForm": "",
		"poBox": "",
		"isCurrent": false,
		"estimatedValue": {
			"currency": "",
			"value": ""
		},
		"occupancyType": "",
		"isPrimary": false,
		"street": "",
		"metroArea": {
			"summary": "",
			"image": "",
			"images": [
				{
					"classifications": "",
					"fingerprint": "",
					"title": "",
					"isCached": false,
					"url": ""
				}
			],
			"types": "",
			"diffbotUri": "",
			"name": "",
			"targetDiffbotUri": ""
		},
		"estimatedEquity": {
			"currency": "",
			"value": ""
		},
		"region": {
			"summary": "",
			"image": "",
			"images": [
				{
					"classifications": "",
					"fingerprint": "",
					"title": "",
					"isCached": false,
					"url": ""
				}
			],
			"types": "",
			"diffbotUri": "",
			"name": "",
			"targetDiffbotUri": ""
		},
		"rawAdministrativeArea": {
			"summary": "",
			"image": "",
			"images": [
				{
					"classifications": "",
					"fingerprint": "",
					"title": "",
					"isCached": false,
					"url": ""
				}
			],
			"types": "",
			"diffbotUri": "",
			"name": "",
			"targetDiffbotUri": ""
		},
		"longitude": ""
	}
}

locations

  • Type: Location
  • Example:
{
	"locations": [
		{
			"country": {
				"name": "United States",
				"type": "AdministrativeArea"
			},
			"isCurrent": true,
			"address": "Kay Bailey Hutchinson Convention Center, Dallas, Texas, TX, USA",
			"city": {
				"name": "Dallas",
				"type": "AdministrativeArea"
			},
			"isPrimary": true,
			"street": "Kay Bailey Hutchinson Convention Center",
			"subregion": {
				"name": "Texas",
				"type": "AdministrativeArea"
			},
			"surfaceForm": "Kay Bailey Hutchinson Convention Center, Dallas, Texas, TX, USA",
			"region": {
				"name": "TX",
				"type": "AdministrativeArea"
			}
		}
	]
}

name

Primary text label for this entity.

  • Type: String
  • Example:
{
	"name": "Talent Connect 2019"
}

nbIncomingEdges

This is the number of edges in the Knowledge Graph that point to this entity. For example, the nbIncomingEdges field for Google is over 100,000. This number includes the number of people that work at google, the number of investors who invested in google, etc.

  • Type: Integer
  • Example:
{
	"nbIncomingEdges": 0
}

nbOrigins

Total number of origins in the field 'origins'. This field is only available in extended JSON mode.

  • Type: Integer
  • Example:
{
	"nbOrigins": 1
}

nonCanonicalFacts

Enumerates all the non-canonical fields (i.e., those not defined in the ontology) that have a value for this entity. For instance, if 'numberOfChildren' is listed in 'nonCanonicalFacts' then the entity JSON will have the key 'numberOfChildren' with an associated value. This field is only provided when the parameter nonCanonicalFacts=1 is set. See: https://docs.diffbot.com/kgapi

  • Type: String
  • Example:
{
	"nonCanonicalFacts": ""
}

onlineLink

  • Type: String
  • Example:
{
	"onlineLink": ""
}

originDetails

Additional information about origins listed in 'origins', including the latest time it was crawled. This field is only available in extended JSON mode.

  • Type: OriginDetail
  • Example:
{
	"originDetails": [
		{
			"crawledAt": {
				"str": "",
				"precision": 0,
				"timestamp": 0
			},
			"origin": ""
		}
	]
}

origins

An origin is a web address where Diffbot found one or more facts about an entity. This field is only available in extended JSON mode.

  • Type: String
  • Example:
{
	"origins": [
		"crunchbase.com/event/talent-connect-2019"
	]
}

sponsors

  • Type: LinkedEntity
  • Example:
{
	"sponsors": [
		{
			"summary": "",
			"image": "",
			"images": [
				{
					"classifications": "",
					"fingerprint": "",
					"title": "",
					"isCached": false,
					"url": ""
				}
			],
			"types": "",
			"diffbotUri": "",
			"name": "",
			"targetDiffbotUri": ""
		}
	]
}

startDateTime

Event start date and time in GMT

  • Type: DDateTime
  • Example:
{
	"startDateTime": {
		"str": "d2019-09-25T00:00",
		"precision": 4,
		"timestamp": 1569369600000
	}
}

summary

A short phrase designed to disambiguate entities with the same or similar name

  • Type: String
  • Example:
{
	"summary": ""
}

tags

Array of tags/entities, generated from analysis of the extracted text and cross-referenced with DBpedia and other data sources. Language-specific tags will be returned if the source text is in English, Chinese, French, German, Spanish or Russian.

  • Type: KGTag
  • Example:
{
	"tags": [
		{
			"score": "",
			"sentiment": "",
			"types": "",
			"count": 0,
			"label": "",
			"uri": ""
		}
	]
}

timezone

IANA Timezone

  • Type: String
  • Example:
{
	"timezone": ""
}

timezoneOffset

Timezone offset from GMT

  • Type: String
  • Example:
{
	"timezoneOffset": ""
}

type

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

  • Type: Type
  • Example:
{
	"type": "Event"
}

types

All types of a Diffbot entity, including the value of the field 'type'.

  • Type: String
  • Example:
{
	"types": [
		"Event"
	]
}

venue

  • Type: String
  • Example:
{
	"venue": ""
}

wikipediaPageviews

The number of views of its Wikipedia page of the last month if it exists.

  • Type: Integer
  • Example:
{
	"wikipediaPageviews": 0
}

wikipediaPageviewsGrowth

The month over month growth of wikipediaPageviews, where we count the increment of the number of page views of the second to last (full) month, compared with that of the last (full) month. if today was Aug 16th, 2022, the last complete month is July. So it refers to the increment from June to July, i.e., ( f(July) - f(June) ) ÷ f(June) x 100%. The f(.) only counts the first 28 days of a month, to avoid fluctuations between 31-days months like Jan and 28(29)-days months like Feb.

  • Type: Float
  • Example:
{
	"wikipediaPageviewsGrowth": ""
}

wikipediaPageviewsLastQuarter

The number of views of its Wikipedia page of the last quarter if it exists.

  • Type: Integer
  • Example:
{
	"wikipediaPageviewsLastQuarter": 0
}

wikipediaPageviewsLastQuarterGrowth

The quarter over quarter growth of wikipediaPageviews, where we count the increment of the number of page views of the second to last (full) quarter, compared with that of the last (full) quarter. If today was Aug 16th, 2022, the last complete quarter is Q2 (April, May, June). So it refers to the increment from Q1 to Q2, i.e., ( f(Q2) - f(Q1) ) ÷ f(Q1) x 100%.

  • Type: Float
  • Example:
{
	"wikipediaPageviewsLastQuarterGrowth": ""
}

wikipediaPageviewsLastYear

The number of views of its Wikipedia page of the last year if it exists.

  • Type: Integer
  • Example:
{
	"wikipediaPageviewsLastYear": 0
}

wikipediaPageviewsLastYearGrowth

The year over year growth of wikipediaPageviews, where we count the monthly-rolling increment of the year before last than the last year. It today was Aug 16th, 2022, it is computed by comparing the numbers from Aug 2021 to July 2022 and from Aug 2020 to July 2021, i.e., ( f(Aug 2021 to July 2022) - f(Aug 2020 to July 2021) ) ÷ f(Aug 2020 to July 2021) x 100%.

  • Type: Float
  • Example:
{
	"wikipediaPageviewsLastYearGrowth": ""
}

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