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stzListOfEntities

29 own methods · 0 forms written with extensions, listed under their method · Also inherits from stzList (878)

also named: stzEntities

the source: base/natural/stzListOfEntities.ring(opens in a new tab) · All classes · The area reference: NLP & linguistics

Under each method, its extensions (Q CS XT Z ZZ IB W U): bold and ticked, it exists; struck, it does not. The extensions and what they mean

Examples: 0 come from the library's tests; 14 were composed from each method's signature and run for this page, on a fresh object, for example o1 = new stzListOfEntities([ [ :name = "alice", :type = "person", :age = 30 ], [ :name = "bob", :type = "person", :age = 25 ], [ :name = "ferrari", :type = "car", :brand = "ferrari" ] ]). 15 methods have none yet. Examples run on 2026-10-04 07:31 inside the library at commit 0e72e2e2c.

Method

Explanation, as the source carries it

init

(no comment in the source: the name reads as a sentence) initno extension

Content

(no comment in the source: the name reads as a sentence) contentalso written: Entities · ListOfEntitiesQCSXTZZZIBWU

Value

(no comment in the source: the name reads as a sentence) valueno extension

Copy

(no comment in the source: the name reads as a sentence) copyno extension

AddEntity

(no comment in the source: the name reads as a sentence) add entityno extension

AppendEntity

(no comment in the source: the name reads as a sentence) append entityno extension

AddEntities

(no comment in the source: the name reads as a sentence) add entitiesno extension

EntitiesNames

(no comment in the source: the name reads as a sentence) entities namesalso written: Names

composed example

o1 = new stzListOfEntities([ [ :name = "alice", :type = "person", :age = 30 ], [ :name = "bob", :type = "person", :age = 25 ], [ :name = "ferrari", :type = "car", :brand = "ferrari" ] ])
? @@( o1.EntitiesNames() )
#--> [ "alice", "bob", "ferrari" ]

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no extension

EntitiesTypes

(no comment in the source: the name reads as a sentence) entities typesalso written: Types

composed example

o1 = new stzListOfEntities([ [ :name = "alice", :type = "person", :age = 30 ], [ :name = "bob", :type = "person", :age = 25 ], [ :name = "ferrari", :type = "car", :brand = "ferrari" ] ])
? @@( o1.EntitiesTypes() )
#--> [ "person", "person", "car" ]

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no extension

UniqueTypes

(no comment in the source: the name reads as a sentence) unique types

composed example

o1 = new stzListOfEntities([ [ :name = "alice", :type = "person", :age = 30 ], [ :name = "bob", :type = "person", :age = 25 ], [ :name = "ferrari", :type = "car", :brand = "ferrari" ] ])
? @@( o1.UniqueTypes() )
#--> [ "person", "car" ]

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QCSXTZZZIBWU

EntityN

(no comment in the source: the name reads as a sentence) entity nalso written: Entity

composed example

o1 = new stzListOfEntities([ [ :name = "alice", :type = "person", :age = 30 ], [ :name = "bob", :type = "person", :age = 25 ], [ :name = "ferrari", :type = "car", :brand = "ferrari" ] ])
? @@( o1.EntityN(2) )
#--> [ [ "name", "bob" ], [ "type", "person" ], [ "age", 25 ] ]

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no extension

FirstEntity

(no comment in the source: the name reads as a sentence) first entity

composed example

o1 = new stzListOfEntities([ [ :name = "alice", :type = "person", :age = 30 ], [ :name = "bob", :type = "person", :age = 25 ], [ :name = "ferrari", :type = "car", :brand = "ferrari" ] ])
? @@( o1.FirstEntity() )
#--> [ [ "name", "alice" ], [ "type", "person" ], [ "age", 30 ] ]

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no extension

LastEntity

(no comment in the source: the name reads as a sentence) last entity

composed example

o1 = new stzListOfEntities([ [ :name = "alice", :type = "person", :age = 30 ], [ :name = "bob", :type = "person", :age = 25 ], [ :name = "ferrari", :type = "car", :brand = "ferrari" ] ])
? @@( o1.LastEntity() )
#--> [ [ "name", "ferrari" ], [ "type", "car" ], [ "brand", "ferrari" ] ]

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no extension

NumberOfEntities

(no comment in the source: the name reads as a sentence) number of entitiesalso written: Size · Count

composed example

o1 = new stzListOfEntities([ [ :name = "alice", :type = "person", :age = 30 ], [ :name = "bob", :type = "person", :age = 25 ], [ :name = "ferrari", :type = "car", :brand = "ferrari" ] ])
? o1.NumberOfEntities()
#--> 3

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no extension

IsEmpty

(no comment in the source: the name reads as a sentence) is empty

composed example

o1 = new stzListOfEntities([ [ :name = "alice", :type = "person", :age = 30 ], [ :name = "bob", :type = "person", :age = 25 ], [ :name = "ferrari", :type = "car", :brand = "ferrari" ] ])
? o1.IsEmpty()
#--> 0

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no extension

RemoveEntity

(no comment in the source: the name reads as a sentence) remove entityno extension

RemoveEntityN

(no comment in the source: the name reads as a sentence) remove entity n

composed example

o1 = new stzListOfEntities([ [ :name = "alice", :type = "person", :age = 30 ], [ :name = "bob", :type = "person", :age = 25 ], [ :name = "ferrari", :type = "car", :brand = "ferrari" ] ])
o1.RemoveEntityN(2)
? @@( o1.Content() )
#--> [ [ [ "name", "alice" ], [ "type", "person" ], [ "age", 30 ] ], [ [ "name", "ferrari" ], [ "type", "car" ], [ "brand", "ferrari" ] ] ]

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no extension

FindEntityByName

(no comment in the source: the name reads as a sentence) find entity by name

composed example

o1 = new stzListOfEntities([ [ :name = "alice", :type = "person", :age = 30 ], [ :name = "bob", :type = "person", :age = 25 ], [ :name = "ferrari", :type = "car", :brand = "ferrari" ] ])
? o1.FindEntityByName("bob")
#--> 2

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no extension

FindEntitiesByType

(no comment in the source: the name reads as a sentence) find entities by typeno extension

EntitiesOfType

(no comment in the source: the name reads as a sentence) entities of typeno extension

ContainsEntity

(no comment in the source: the name reads as a sentence) contains entityalso written: HasEntityno extension

ContainsName

(no comment in the source: the name reads as a sentence) contains namealso written: HasName

composed example

o1 = new stzListOfEntities([ [ :name = "alice", :type = "person", :age = 30 ], [ :name = "bob", :type = "person", :age = 25 ], [ :name = "ferrari", :type = "car", :brand = "ferrari" ] ])
? o1.ContainsName("bob")
#--> 1

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no extension

ContainsType

(no comment in the source: the name reads as a sentence) contains typealso written: HasType

composed example

o1 = new stzListOfEntities([ [ :name = "alice", :type = "person", :age = 30 ], [ :name = "bob", :type = "person", :age = 25 ], [ :name = "ferrari", :type = "car", :brand = "ferrari" ] ])
? o1.ContainsType("car")
#--> 1

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no extension

CountByType

(no comment in the source: the name reads as a sentence) count by type

composed example

o1 = new stzListOfEntities([ [ :name = "alice", :type = "person", :age = 30 ], [ :name = "bob", :type = "person", :age = 25 ], [ :name = "ferrari", :type = "car", :brand = "ferrari" ] ])
? o1.CountByType("person")
#--> 2

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no extension

Clear

(no comment in the source: the name reads as a sentence) clearno extension

SortByName

(no comment in the source: the name reads as a sentence) sort by nameno extension

SortByType

(no comment in the source: the name reads as a sentence) sort by type

composed example

o1 = new stzListOfEntities([ [ :name = "alice", :type = "person", :age = 30 ], [ :name = "bob", :type = "person", :age = 25 ], [ :name = "ferrari", :type = "car", :brand = "ferrari" ] ])
o1.SortByType()
? @@( o1.Content() )
#--> [ [ [ "name", "ferrari" ], [ "type", "car" ], [ "brand", "ferrari" ] ], [ [ "name", "alice" ], [ "type", "person" ], [ "age", 30 ] ], [ [ "name", "bob" ], [ "type", "person" ], [ "age", 25 ] ] ]

composed from the signature, run for this page

no extension

FilterByTypeQ

Cuts the entities of one type into their own list -- an OBJECT, hence Q. For the plain data, EntitiesOfType() already answers.no extension

Show

(no comment in the source: the name reads as a sentence) showno extension