CommonName

CommonName[entity]

gives the common name for the entity specified by entity.

CommonName[{entity1,…,entityn}]

gives the common name for entity1 through entityn.

Details

Examples

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Basic Examples  (1)

Get the common name of an entity:

Get the common names of properties:

Scope  (4)

Find the common name of an entity:

Some common names exist in more than one entity type:

Find the common names of a list of entities:

Find the common name of an entity property:

Find the common name of an entity class:

Possible Issues  (1)

The common name of an implicitly defined entity class is typically not defined:

Wolfram Research (2014), CommonName, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/CommonName.html.

Text

Wolfram Research (2014), CommonName, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/CommonName.html.

CMS

Wolfram Language. 2014. "CommonName." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/CommonName.html.

APA

Wolfram Language. (2014). CommonName. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/CommonName.html

BibTeX

@misc{reference.wolfram_2025_commonname, author="Wolfram Research", title="{CommonName}", year="2014", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/CommonName.html}", note=[Accessed: 29-May-2025 ]}

BibLaTeX

@online{reference.wolfram_2025_commonname, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={CommonName}, year={2014}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/CommonName.html}, note=[Accessed: 29-May-2025 ]}