Alexa Entities Build with Knowledge Graphs

Announcements in the Alexa Development blog about new means to connect knowledge graph data to voice interactions with Entities.    With code and Dev examples.   Technical.

Announcing Alexa Entities (Beta): Create More Intelligent and Engaging Skills With Easy Access to Alexa’s Knowledge  ....

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We are excited to announce Alexa Entities (Beta), a new suite of tools that provides access to information about popular entities including people, places and things from Alexa’s Knowledge Graph. With Alexa Entities, you can now resolve strings in a customer’s utterance to common entities from a built-in catalog, using those entities as an entry point to traverse Alexa’s structured knowledge. Alexa Entities is currently supported for all customers with 15 Built-in Slot Types in English (US) and English (CA). Check out the technical documentation here to start building skills with Alexa’s knowledge.

Alexa Entities provides access to Alexa’s high-quality, continuously updated Knowledge Graph containing facts about popular entities including people (e.g. George Clooney’s birthday), places (e.g. the population and capital of Belgium) and things (e.g. the average weight of a hippo). 

Why Use Alexa Entities

Build More Intelligent & Engaging Skills: Alexa Entities makes Built-in Slot Types more useful by linking entities to Alexa’s knowledge, which can be used to build more engaging and intelligent experiences for customers. Connections between entities can be used to create more natural dialogues, for example “Add Alias Grace to my reading list”, “Got it. Have you thought about reading The Testaments, also written by Margaret Atwood in 2019?” Knowledge can also be used to easily disambiguate between similarly named entities, e.g. “Did you mean Anne Hathaway, born in 1556, or the actress in films such as Les Misérables?” or simply presented on-screen to create more engaging visual experiences. For example, the company Vocala recently used Alexa Entities to improve their new skill “Voice Blast”, which allows customers to compete against other players to guess celebrity voices. Alexa’s knowledge is used to provide additional facts about celebrities on-screen, complementing the spoken response with useful & interesting information. Simply say “Alexa, play Voice Blast” to see Alexa Entities in action.  ... "