Lucene search for item name that exactly matches returns a similar result, when none should match

Question

We are getting the wrong result returned.

for example, a search for the item named "alumni" returns the item "commencement-alumni-help" when no result should be returned.

SearchContext.GetQueryable<SearchResultItem>()
    .Filter(s => s.TemplateId == SpecificTemplateId &&
            s.Path.Contains("/Path/to/Website"))
    .Where(i => i.Name == "alumni")
    .GetResults();

I have a theory it might be related to tokenizing; however, item names shouldn't be an issue. Even sitecore's documentation indicates that you can directly search for item names.

Answer 1

Item name (_name) field in lucene/solr is defined as text type, so it is stored as a tokenized value in search indices. So when you search using name, (query will be formed like _name:(alumni)) it will return all items which contains "alumni" in name.

By default, Name/_name is a tokenized field so the result you are getting is absolutely valid/expected.