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GNR Get Best Culture

The GNR Get Best Culture processor uses GNR's 'classification' API and returns the single best culture for the Given Name and Surname according to the API.

Use

Use GNR Get Best Culture to use Global Name Recognition to derive the cultures for names so that they can be matched accurately using linguistic rules which may vary for different cultures.

The Given Name and Surname culture values are required by the GNR Search processor for both the working data and the reference data it searches against, so that it can associate the appropriate comparison parameters (comp_parms) for the name cultures when matching.

Configuration

Inputs

GNR Get Best Culture requires the input of Given Name and Surname attributes.

Options

None

Outputs

Culture values are added to the data as simple string attributes. The following culture values are possible:

Ambiguous
Anglo
Arabic
Chinese
Hispanic
Korean
Russian
French
German
Thai
Indonesian
Yoruban
Farsi
Pakistani
Indian
Japanese
Afghani
Vietnamese
Southwest Asian (a "rollup" culture that represents some combination of Arabic, Farsi, Pakistani, and Afghanistan cultures)
European (a "rollup" culture that represents some combination of Anglo, French, German, and Hispanic cultures)
Han (a "rollup" culture that represents some combination of Chinese, Korean, and Vietnam cultures)

Data attributes

Data attribute	Type	Value
GivenNameCulture	Added	The most likely origin culture of the supplied Given Name value.
SurnameCulture	Added	The most likely origin culture of the supplied Surname value.
FullNameCulture	Added	The most likely origin culture of the Full name (derived from the Given Name and Surname values).

Flags

None

Execution

Execution Mode	Supported
Batch	Yes
Real-time Monitoring	Yes
Real-time Response	Yes

Results Browsing

Separate summary views are provided to summarize the distribution of best culture values for Given Names, Surnames, and Full Names (which are derived from the Given Name and Surname).

Note that the same record may have different best culture values for the different name fields. You can see these in the Data View, and find all the records where this is the case using a Cross-Attribute Check on the Given Name Culture and Surname Culture attributes.

Statistic	Meaning
Culture Value	The number of records with the specified culture value as one of the possible cultures for the name.

Output Filters

None

Example

The following example shows how GNR Get Best Culture adds name culture values to a set of individual names.

Summary Views

Data View