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The pii detector

The pii detector identifies personally identifiable information (PII) and returns them together with their positions in the text as linked data in JSON-LD format (see also https://json-ld.org/).

The detector's output allows you to determine if a document contains potentially sensitive data and possibly create a new version of the text in which the PII is de-identified.

These are the information types pii can detect:

Information type Notes
Personal attributes Of a real person or a fictional character
Postal address
Bank account
IP address
E-mail address
URL
Financial product Credit or debit card
Phone number

These are the properties of each information type:

Information type Property Linked data reference
Personal attributes
Full name of the person https://schema.org/Person
First name https://schema.org/givenName
Last name https://schema.org/familyName
Age https://schema.org/Number
Gender https://schema.org/gender
Nationality https://schema.org/nationality
Date of birth https://schema.org/birthDate
Place of birth https://schema.org/birthPlace
Date of death https://schema.org/deathDate
Place of death https://schema.org/deathPlace
Any date or a time related to the person https://schema.org/Date
Postal address
Full address https://schema.org/Text
Street name and house number https://schema.org/streetAddress
Country https://schema.org/addressCountry
Postal code https://schema.org/postalCode
Locality https://schema.org/addressLocality
Region https://schema.org/addressRegion
PO box number https://schema.org/postOfficeBoxNumber
Bank account
IBAN code https://schema.org/PropertyValue
IBAN code country https://schema.org/Country
IP address
Address https://schema.org/Text
E-mail address
Address https://schema.org/email
URL
URL https://schema.org/URL
Financial product
Number of the credit/debit card https://schema.org/Text
Card Verification Value (CVV) or Card Verification Code (CVC) https://schema.org/Number
Card expiration date https://schema.org/Date
Phone number
Number https://schema.org/telephone

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Tip

To play with the JSON-LD object and get ideas for its possible uses, take a look at the JSON-LD playground site, where you can paste the JSON-LD object returned by the pii detector.