def remove_prefix_dates(entity: EntityProxy) -> EntityProxy:
"""If an entity has multiple values for a date field, you may
want to remove all those that are prefixes of others. For example,
if a Person has both a birthDate of 1990 and of 1990-05-01, we'd
want to drop the mention of 1990."""
for prop in entity.iterprops():
if prop.type == registry.date:
values = remove_prefix_date_values(entity.get(prop))
entity.set(prop, values)
return entity
def simplify_provenance(proxy: EntityProxy) -> EntityProxy:
"""If there are multiple dates given for some of the provenance
fields, we can logically conclude which one is the most meaningful."""
for prop_name in ["modifiedAt", "retrievedAt"]:
if proxy.has(prop_name, quiet=True):
values = proxy.get(prop_name)
proxy.set(prop_name, max(values))
for prop_name in ["createdAt", "authoredAt", "publishedAt"]:
if proxy.has(prop_name, quiet=True):
values = proxy.get(prop_name)
proxy.set(prop_name, min(values))
return proxy
def name_entity(entity: EntityProxy) -> EntityProxy:
"""If an entity has multiple names, pick the most central one
and set all the others as aliases. This is awkward given that
names are not special and may not always be the caption."""
if entity.schema.is_a("Thing"):
names = entity.get("name")
if len(names) > 1:
name = registry.name.pick(names)
if name in names:
names.remove(name)
entity.set("name", name)
entity.add("alias", names)
return entity