EntityRuler additional properties

[lfoppiano]

Hi all,
I'm using the entity ruler for a quick matching system. In particular, I'm interested in adding additional information in each match. I guess the patterns have a fixed set of properties (id, pattern, label). Is there a way to carry out more information?

E.g. my matches are as follow:
{"label":"space-groups","pattern":"P6_3mc","type":"hexagonal"}
and I would like to find a way to get the "type" somewhere in the entities that are extracted. Is there a way?

Thank you in advance

[polm]

One of the main use cases of the ID is to refer to an external source of data. So you can use the ID space-hex and then you have some data:

space_db = {"space-hex": {"type":"hexagonal"}, ...}

And when you get a match you use the ID to look up the data in your data store, which can be a dict, or a DB, or anything. You can't attach more attributes directly to the match results, but the intent is that the ID takes care of any use case like that.

Does that make sense?

[lfoppiano]

Dear @polm, indeed it makes sense. Thanks for the tip! :-)