All parameters accepted by DBpedia Spotlight are describing in the WADL (Web Application Description Language) file.

Following there are a description of each parameter used by the web service. Many of them are used in the filter and are described in that section.

text or url (Required): text or url to be annotated.

It is possible to remove unwanted annotations through the endpoints using filters parameters. These filters are available in /candidates and /annotate (applied after disambiguation step) endpoints.

Selects all entities that have a percentageOfSecondRank greater than the square of value informed.

Available in: /candidates, /annotate

Parameter name: confidence

Parameter type: number(double)

Default value: 0.5