Entity Category Type Enumeration
Entity item category type. An entity may belong to one or more categories.
Definition
Namespace: OpenDiscoverSDK.Interfaces.Content.TextAnalytics
Assembly: OpenDiscoverSDK.Interfaces (in OpenDiscoverSDK.Interfaces.dll) Version: 2026.2.6.0 (2026.02.06)
Assembly: OpenDiscoverSDK.Interfaces (in OpenDiscoverSDK.Interfaces.dll) Version: 2026.2.6.0 (2026.02.06)
C#
public enum EntityCategoryTypeMembers
| Other | 0 | Generic entity category type. |
| Identification | 1 | Sensitive personally identifiable information (PII) (SSN, identification card id, VIN, license plate number, etc.). |
| Financial | 2 | Financial related sensitive information (e.g., bank accounts, investment accounts, credit card numbers, IBAN, cryptocurrency addresses). |
| Insurance | 3 | Insurance related entities. |
| Employment | 4 | Employment related entity (e.g., employee/employer id, employment starting/ending date, employee/employer account number, etc). |
| PHI | 5 | Protected health information (PHI). |
| FERPA | 6 | Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) information. |
| PersonName | 7 | Person name related (person name or person name related form entry fields). |
| Communication | 8 | Email address related or phone number. |
| DeviceIdentifier | 9 | Device identifier (IP address, MAC address, or International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI and IMEISV) number). |
| AccessCredentials | 10 | Access credential related entity (password, username, access tokens, access card, etc). |
| URL | 11 | General URL related entity. See also ServiceEndpoint and DataStorageLocator. |
| Investigation | 12 | Investigation related entity (investigation ID, LexusNexus ID, and investigation related entities). |
| Address | 13 | Postal address or field entry parts of a postal address. |
| UniformResource | 14 | Uniform Resouce Identifiers (URI) and Uniform Resource Names (URN). |
| ServiceEndpoint | 15 | Service end point (database connection strings and cloud API URLs). |
| DataStorageLocator | 16 | Data storage locator (SMB, cloud storage URLs, and cloud storage resource URIs). |
| CustomEntity | 100 | User defined custom entity type. |