"Surname" (Text Content Type)

Text identified as the name of a surname expressed in natural language.

Details

"Surname" can be used in TextCases, TextPosition and TextContents.
"Surname" corresponds to any mention of a surname (real or not real) in the context of the text.
Homonyms of surnames that are not surnames should not be detected as "Surname" (if the context allows disambiguation).
TextCases[…,"Surname""Interpretation"] attempts to return entities of type "Surname", as Interpreter["Surname"] does.
Any specific "Surname" entity such as
can also be used as a content type in TextCases, TextPosition and TextContents.

Find occurrences of surnames in a text:

Get the result as a list of "Surname" entities:

A similar result can be obtained by applying Interpreter["Surname"] to text snippets:

Get properties about occurrences of surnames:

Find mentions of the surname "Keys" in a text:

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