Cognitive multiple-level highlight contrasting for entities

A system for multiple-level highlight contrasting for entities, the system comprising:

• one or more processors;
• and
• a memory communicatively coupled to the one or more processors,
• wherein the memory comprises instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform a method comprising:
• identifying entity-containing content;
• analyzing the entity-containing content for entities;
• identifying a plurality of hierarchy levels for the entities, wherein a hierarchy of the plurality of hierarchy levels is based, at least in part, on a relative ranking of each entity within each respective hierarchy level of the plurality of hierarchy levels, wherein at least one rank of an entity is above one or more ranks of other entities of the entity-containing content;
• receiving selections of highlights for the entities, wherein the highlights for the entities within each hierarchy level share one or more characteristics but are not identical;
• applying entity contrasting to the entities that were previously identified in the entity-containing content;
• and
• outputting the entity-containing content with applied entity contrasting to a user.

A computer program product for multiple-level highlight contrasting for entities, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a computer to perform a method comprising:

• analyzing a document to identify a plurality of entities in the document;
• determining, for each identified entity, a hierarchy level from a plurality of hierarchy levels in the document, wherein a hierarchy of the plurality of hierarchy levels is based, at least in part, on a relative ranking of each identified entity within each respective hierarchy level of the plurality of hierarchy levels, wherein at least one rank of an entity is above one or more ranks of other entities of the plurality of entities;
• applying highlighting to two or more entities of the plurality of entities, wherein a type of highlighting applied to each respective entity of the two or more entities is based, at least in part, on the hierarchy level of the respective entity;
• and
• outputting the document with the applied highlighting.