Elasticsearch-ing How I make sense of what the hell is going on in ES. Essentially a "control test" environment. Validate the minimum possible use-case, then iterate by one factor. Note I don't have any comments in there because you can copy and paste the entire top half into console and it will run in sequence.

international-support.json

curl -XDELETE 'http://localhost:9200/p'
curl -XPOST 'http://localhost:9200/p' -d '
{
  "index" : {
    "analysis" : {

      "analyzer" : {
        "default_index" : {
          "tokenizer" : "standard",
          "filter" : ["lowercase", "asciifolding", "mynGram"],
          "type" : "custom"
        },
        "default_search" : {
          "tokenizer" : "standard",
          "filter" : ["lowercase", "asciifolding"],
          "type" : "custom"
        },
        "pronoun_stream_analyzer": {
          "type" : "custom",
          "filter" : ["lowercase", "asciifolding"],
          "tokenizer" : "keyword"
        }
      }
      ,

      "filter" : {
        "mynGram" : {
           "type" : "edgeNGram",
           "min_gram" : 1,
           "max_gram" : 50
        },
        "searchkick_search_shingle": {
                      "type": "shingle",
                      "max_shingle_sizes" : 3
                    }
      }


    }
  }
}
'

curl -XPOST 'localhost:9200/p/profile/_mapping' -d '
{
    "profile": {
        "properties": {
            "name": {"type" : "string", "analyzer" : "default_index","store": true  }
            }
        }
    }
}'



curl -XPOST localhost:9200/p/profile -d '{ "name" : "Lucapette" }'
curl -XPOST localhost:9200/p/profile -d '{ "name" : "Lucas" }'
curl -XPOST localhost:9200/p/profile -d '{ "name" : "Luca" }'


curl -XPOST localhost:9200/p/profile -d '{ "name" : "Jade Dominguez" }'
curl -XPOST localhost:9200/p/profile -d '{ "name" : "Jade Dominguez Jr." }'
curl -XPOST localhost:9200/p/profile -d '{ "name" : "Dr. Jade Dominguez" }'
curl -XPOST localhost:9200/p/profile -d '{ "name" : "Dr Jade Dominguez" }'
curl -XPOST localhost:9200/p/profile -d '{ "name" : "Jade" }'
curl -XPOST localhost:9200/p/profile -d '{ "name" : "Robert Jade" }'
curl -XPOST localhost:9200/p/profile -d '{ "name" : "Samjade HO" }'
curl -XPOST localhost:9200/p/profile -d '{ "name" : "Jade F" }'

curl -XPOST "http://localhost:9200/p/_refresh"

curl -XGET 'localhost:9200/p/_search?&search_type=dfs_query_then_fetch&pretty=true' -d '{
    "query": {
        "query_string": {
            "query": "name:Jad",
            "default_operator" : "AND"
        }
    },
    "explain": false
}'

curl -XGET 'localhost:9200/p/_search?&search_type=dfs_query_then_fetch&pretty=true' -d '{
    "query": {
      "match": {
          "name" : {
            "query": "luca",
            "operator": "AND",
            "type" : "phrase_prefix",
            "max_expansions": 10,
            "phrase_slop": 3,
            "boost" : 10
          }
      }
    },
    "explain": true
}'


curl -XGET 'localhost:9200/p/_search?&search_type=dfs_query_then_fetch&pretty=true' -d '{
    "query": {
      "dis_max": {
          "queries": [
            {
              "match": {
                  "name" : {
                    "query": "lucap",
                    "operator": "AND",
                    "boost" : 10
                  }
              }
            }


            ,
            {
              "match": {
                  "name" : {
                    "query": "lucap",
                    "operator": "AND",
                    "type" : "phrase_prefix",
                    "max_expansions": 10,
                    "phrase_slop": 3
                  }
              }
            }
          ]
      }    

    },
    "explain": false
}'


curl -XGET "http://localhost:9200/p/_status"


curl -XGET 'localhost:9200/p/_search?&search_type=dfs_query_then_fetch&pretty=true' -d '{
    "query": {
        "filtered": {
            "query": {
                "bool": {
                    "must": [
                        {
                            "query_string": {
                                "query": "Ozgür~",
                                "default_operator": "AND",
                                "fields": [
                                    "name"
                                ]
                            }
                        }
                    ]
                }
            }
        }
    },
    "size": 20,
    "from": 0
}'

curl -XGET 'localhost:9200/p/_search?&search_type=dfs_query_then_fetch&pretty=true' -d '{
    "query": {
        "filtered": {
            "query": {
                "bool": {
                    "must": [
                        {
                            "multi_match": {
                                "query": "Ozgüra",
                                "operator": "AND",
                                "fuzziness" : "0.9",
                                "fields": [
                                    "name"
                                ]

                            }
                        }
                    ]
                }
            }
        }
    },
    "size": 20,
    "from": 0
}'



curl -XGET 'localhost:9200/p/_search?&search_type=dfs_query_then_fetch&pretty=true' -d '{
  "query": {
      "bool": {
          "must": [
            {
              "match" : {
                "name" : {
                  "query" : "meep test",
                  "operator" : "and",
                  "fuzziness": "0.9"
                }
              }
            }
          ]
      }
    },
    "size": 20,
    "from": 0
}'


curl -XGET 'localhost:9200/p/_search?&search_type=dfs_query_then_fetch&pretty=true' -d '{
  "query": {
      "bool": {
          "must": [
              {
                  "fuzzy": { 
                    "name" : {
                      "value" : "Jade",
                      "min_similarity" : 0.5
                    }
                  }
              }
          ]
      }
    },
    "size": 20,
    "from": 0
}'



curl -XGET 'localhost:9200/p/_search?&search_type=dfs_query_then_fetch&pretty=true' -d '{
  "query": {
      "filtered": {

  "query": {
      "dis_max": {
          "queries": [
            { 
              "match": {
                  "name" : {
                    "query": "__sam",
                    "operator": "AND",
                    "type" : "phrase_prefix",
                    "max_expansions": 10,
                    "phrase_slop": 3,
                    "boost" : 10
                  }
              }
            }
            ,
            { 
              "match": {
                  "name" : {
                    "query": "__sam",
                    "operator": "AND",
                    "max_expansions": 10,
                    "fuzziness": 0.3
                  }
              }
            }

            ,
            {
                "fuzzy": { 
                  "name" : {
                    "value" : "samm",
                    "min_similarity" : 0.2
                  }
                }
            }

          ]
      }
    }}},
    "size": 20,
    "from": 0
}'


curl -XGET 'localhost:9200/p/_analyze?&pretty=true' -d 'Luca blah'