Entities Have Visible Text When On Ground (Minecraft 1.9)

I have looked around google and have not found an answer to this question, mostly because I do not know what to search or what to call my "problem." I am making an adventure map and I am very advanced with command blocks. I have an item spawning that will

Never despawn, and
Never be picked up.

The item is a bow. What I want to do is have the entity display the text "Bow" when the player looks near the entity (like a name tag does!) . I know this is possible, but I haven't figured out how to do it yet. Here is my current command:

/summon Item ~ ~2 ~ {Item:{id:minecraft:bow,Count:1},Age:-32768,PickupDelay:32767}

If there is already a question answering this, my sincere apologies, I have not found one.

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Best Answer

Using the CustomName tag this can be achieved.

/summon Item ~ ~2 ~ {Item:{id:minecraft:bow,Count:1},CustomName:"Bow",CustomNameVisible:1,Age:-32768,PickupDelay:32767}

This is very simple, only thing is the text is there permanently, not only when you look at it.

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How to Enter the Command

Open the Chat Window. The easiest way to run a command in Minecraft is within the chat window.

Type the Command. In this example, we will send a private message to the player called DigMinecraft with the following command: /tellraw DigMinecraft {"text":"Herobrine joined the game","color":"yellow"}

What does @P mean in Minecraft?

The selector \u201c@p\u201d selects the nearest player. Alternatively, you could also use your Minecraft username, but if you run a command from the console you will always be the nearest player. The other target selectors are \u201c@a\u201d for all players, \u201c@r\u201d for a random player, and \u201c@e\u201d will target all entities.

What do the @s mean in Minecraft?

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