# Not\_equal filter seems not work

**URL:** <https://forum.weaviate.io/t/not-equal-filter-seems-not-work/1266>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [January 19, 2024, 3:40pm UTC](https://forum.weaviate.io/t/not-equal-filter-seems-not-work/1266 "2024-01-19T15:40:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![shadowlin](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.weaviate.io/shadowlin/32/800_2.png) [@shadowlin](https://forum.weaviate.io/u/shadowlin)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2024, 3:40pm UTC](https://forum.weaviate.io/t/not-equal-filter-seems-not-work/1266/1 "2024-01-19T15:40:29Z")

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filters = Filter.by\_property(“project\_id”).not\_equal(“project\_id\_1”)  
but still get these records  
{‘file\_id’: ‘file\_id\_1’, ‘auth\_level’: 1, ‘text’: ‘text\_7591’, ‘project\_id’: ‘project\_id\_1’}

mean time, equal filter works

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**Author:** ![DudaNogueira](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.weaviate.io/dudanogueira/32/7846_2.png) [@DudaNogueira](https://forum.weaviate.io/u/DudaNogueira)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2024, 10:06pm UTC](https://forum.weaviate.io/t/not-equal-filter-seems-not-work/1266/2 "2024-01-22T22:06:51Z")

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Hi @shadowlin !

One configuration that directly influentiate this outcome is tokenization:

> **[Collection schema | Weaviate - Vector Database](https://weaviate.io/developers/weaviate/config-refs/schema#tokenization)**
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> Introduction

so by default the **tokenization** is `word`, that will:

> Keep only alpha-numeric characters, lowercase them, and split by whitespace.

So you will probably want to define the **tokenization** of that property to `field`, that will:

> Index the whole field after trimming whitespace characters.

Let me know if this helps 🙂

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**Author:** ![shadowlin](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.weaviate.io/shadowlin/32/800_2.png) [@shadowlin](https://forum.weaviate.io/u/shadowlin)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2024, 10:13am UTC](https://forum.weaviate.io/t/not-equal-filter-seems-not-work/1266/3 "2024-01-23T10:13:12Z")

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I did set this when create collection:  
classes.Property(  
name=“project\_id”,  
skip\_vectorization=True,  
index\_filterable=True,  
index\_searchable=False,  
data\_type=classes.DataType.INT  
)  
should this disable **tokenization**?