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GET
/
v1
/
answers
/
{answer_id}
JavaScript
import Semilattice from 'semilattice';

const client = new Semilattice({
  apiKey: 'My API Key',
});

const answer = await client.answers.get('answer_id');

console.log(answer.data);
{
  "data": {
    "id": "b8b3e8cb-4c67-40d7-8350-3eac3c2b127d",
    "batch": "1e6bfe22-40d9-46c4-b241-9e1d7d5c5560",
    "created_at": "2025-06-23T15:40:52Z",
    "prediction_started_at": "2025-06-23T15:41:02Z",
    "prediction_finished_at": "2025-06-23T15:43:56Z",
    "test_started_at": "2025-06-23T15:44:10Z",
    "test_finished_at": "2025-06-23T15:45:30Z",
    "ground_answer_counts": {
      "Tech debt": 58,
      "Unclear error messages": 42
    },
    "ground_answer_percentages": {
      "Tech debt": 0.58,
      "Unclear error messages": 0.42
    },
    "population": "af8917b4-a09c-41f9-9c9f-c4c40c1f7415",
    "simulation_engine": "answers-1",
    "status": "Predicted",
    "public": false,
    "answer_options": [
      "Tech debt",
      "Unclear error messages"
    ],
    "population_name": "Developers",
    "question": "Tech debt or unclear error messages, what's worse?",
    "question_options": {
      "question_type": "single-choice"
    },
    "accuracy": 0.8528,
    "squared_error": 0.1607,
    "root_mean_squared_error": 0.1607,
    "simulated_answer_percentages": {
      "Tech debt": 0.5488,
      "Unclear error messages": 0.4512
    },
    "predicted_answer_percentages": {
      "Tech debt": 0.5488,
      "Unclear error messages": 0.4512
    },
    "information_loss": 0.0043,
    "normalised_information_loss": 0.051
  },
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": "<string>",
      "message": "<string>"
    }
  ]
}

Headers

​
authorization
string

Path Parameters

​
answer_id
string
required

ID of the prediction you want to fetch.

Response

Successful Response

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data
object | null

The primary response payload. Contains the result of the request if successful. We define this to maintain backwards compatibility pre API v1.1.0 / SDK v0.6.0 This class is inherited by the TestsResponse as that needs all the computed, renamed evals PredictionsResponse does not inherit this class because you can't exclude the computed evals

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errors
ErrorResponse · object[] | null

List of structured error messages, if any occurred during the request.

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