adding and retrieving aliases

spacy/kb.pxd

@@ -117,3 +117,9 @@ cdef class KnowledgeBase:
             ))
         self._alias_index[alias_key] = alias_index
         return alias_index
+
+    cdef inline c_get_candidates(self, hash_t alias_key):
+        cdef int64_t alias_index = self._alias_index[alias_key]
+        cdef _AliasC candidates = self._aliases_table[alias_index]
+        print("candidates", candidates)
+

spacy/kb.pyx

@@ -38,5 +38,8 @@ cdef class KnowledgeBase:
 
         self.c_add_aliases(alias_key=alias_hash, entities=entities, probabilities=probabilities)
 
-
+    def get_candidates(self, unicode alias):
+        cdef hash_t alias_hash = hash_string(alias)
+        cdef _AliasC candidates = self.c_get_candidates(alias_key=alias_hash)
+        return candidates
 

spacy/sandbox_test_sofie/testing_el.py

@@ -6,12 +6,26 @@ def create_kb():
     mykb = KnowledgeBase()
     print("kb size", len(mykb))
 
-    entity_id = "Q42"
-    mykb.add_entity(entity_id=entity_id, prob=0.5)
-    print("adding entity", entity_id)
+    # adding entities
+    entity_42 = "Q42"   # douglas adams
+    mykb.add_entity(entity_id=entity_42, prob=0.5)
+    print("adding entity", entity_42)
+
+    entity_5301561 = "Q5301561"
+    mykb.add_entity(entity_id=entity_5301561, prob=0.5)
+    print("adding entity", entity_5301561)
 
     print("kb size", len(mykb))
 
+    # adding aliases
+    alias = "douglas"
+    print("adding alias", alias)
+    mykb.add_alias(alias=alias, entities=["Q42", "Q5301561"], probabilities=[0.8, 0.2])
+    print("kb size", len(mykb))
+
+    print("aliases for", alias)
+    mykb.get_candidates(alias)
+
 
 def add_el():
     nlp = spacy.load('en_core_web_sm')