I don't think we want to lose the match information, though. Maybe we're only talking about a factoring of the TNRS result information. All the matches for one taxon would be gathered together, so we get a list where each component is a taxon and a list of matches. Each match has fields is_synonym, score, nomenclature_code, and is_approximate_match.
Hacking the TNRS to do this is a pain, and this is a transformation that clients can do, so not obvious that the effort is best spent hacking taxomachine, or the client(s).
TNRS results should be organized by taxon, not name match. Currently you can get several results for a single OTT id, which is odd. See https://github.com/OpenTreeOfLife/opentree/issues/860
I don't think we want to lose the match information, though. Maybe we're only talking about a factoring of the TNRS result information. All the matches for one taxon would be gathered together, so we get a list where each component is a
taxonand a list of matches. Each match has fieldsis_synonym,score,nomenclature_code, andis_approximate_match.TNRS documentation here: https://github.com/OpenTreeOfLife/germinator/wiki/TNRS-API-v3#match_names
Hacking the TNRS to do this is a pain, and this is a transformation that clients can do, so not obvious that the effort is best spent hacking taxomachine, or the client(s).