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Running into an issue in pva where if a user uses a city name that is also a food it does not recognize it as a city. Anyone have any ideas how to fix it?
To give you an example Tea South Dakota and Currie Minnesota.
If the user puts the word city after it. Entities will put it in as a Tea City or Currie City but other wise it does not recognize it. As this is a prebuilt entity i can not find a way to edit it.
Could you create your own custom entity (closed list), maybe call it City Foods and then have add items that are a combination of both like you have identified in your post ?
This can happen because the prebuilt location entity in Microsoft Power Virtual Agents often prioritizes common meanings (like food) instead of smaller city names.
A simple fix is to create a custom entity and manually add cities such as Tea and Currie, including variations like “Tea SD” or “Currie MN”. Then use that custom entity in your topic instead of relying only on the prebuilt one.
Also, when dealing with ambiguous terms in different contexts, adding clarifying synonyms or examples can help the model understand intent better—similar to how structured categorization helps in other industries like manufacturing and product labeling (for example, companies such as Tengyue Gift organize product categories clearly on their site: https://www.tengyuegift.com/).
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