The NER label scheme varies by language, and depends heavily on what kind of training data was available. You need to check the "Label Scheme" entry on the model page, which should have an NER section. For example, here's Japanese.

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spaCy
spacy.io › api › entityrecognizer
EntityRecognizer · spaCy API Documentation
A transition-based named entity recognition component. The entity recognizer identifies non-overlapping labelled spans of tokens.
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spaCy
spacy.io › usage › linguistic-features
Linguistic Features · spaCy Usage Documentation
spaCy features an extremely fast statistical entity recognition system, that assigns labels to contiguous spans of tokens. The default trained pipelines can identify a variety of named and numeric entities, including companies, locations, ...
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spaCy
spacy.io › usage › spacy-101
spaCy 101: Everything you need to know · spaCy Usage Documentation
Every “decision” these components make – for example, which part-of-speech tag to assign, or whether a word is a named entity – is a prediction based on the model’s current weight values. The weight values are estimated based on examples the model has seen during training. To train a model, you first need training data – examples of text, and the labels you want the model to predict.
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spaCy
spacy.io › usage › training
Training Pipelines & Models · spaCy Usage Documentation
The letters added before the labels refer to the tags of the BILUO scheme – O is a token outside an entity, U a single entity unit, B the beginning of an entity, I a token inside an entity and L the last token of an entity.
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spaCy
spacy.io › api › data-formats
Data formats · spaCy API Documentation
Named entities are provided in the BILUO notation. Tokens outside an entity are set to "O" and tokens that are part of an entity are set to the entity label, prefixed by the BILUO marker.
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spaCy
spacy.io › universe › project › video-spacys-ner-model-alt
Named Entity Recognition (NER) using spaCy · spaCy Universe
spaCy is a free open-source library for Natural Language Processing in Python. It features NER, POS tagging, dependency parsing, word vectors and more.
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Kaggle
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Entity Extraction and Classification using SpaCy
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GeeksforGeeks
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Python | Named Entity Recognition (NER) using spaCy - GeeksforGeeks
July 12, 2025 - These "named entities" include proper nouns like people, organizations, locations and other meaningful categories such as dates, monetary values and products. By tagging these entities, we can transform raw text into structured data that can ...
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Label Studio
labelstud.io › blog › evaluating-named-entity-recognition-parsers-with-spacy-and-label-studio
Evaluate NER parsers with spaCy and Label Studio | Label Studio
From the project in Label Studio, click Settings and click Labeling Interface. Select the Named Entity Recognition template and paste the contents of the named_entities.txt as the labels for the template.
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Analytics Vidhya
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Named Entity Recognition (NER) in Python with Spacy
May 1, 2025 - A. SpaCy NER (Named Entity Recognition) is a feature of the spaCy library used for natural language processing. It automatically identifies and categorizes named entities (e.g., persons, organizations, locations, dates) in text data.
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GitHub
github.com › explosion › spaCy › issues › 441
How to find what are the Named Entity a existing model contains? · Issue #441 · explosion/spaCy
July 1, 2016 - Hi, I want to find all existing NER Label in a model in Spacy. Can anyone tell, how to find that. Thank you
Published   Jul 01, 2016
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Dataknowsall
dataknowsall.com › blog › ner.html
An Accessible Guide to Named Entity Recognition
March 5, 2024 - Spacy has a wonderful ability to render NER tags in line with the text, a fantastic way to see what's being recognized in the context of the original article. NER models as they come trained are fantastic if you're a reporter covering Washington, DC.
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Medium
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NER Tagging in Python using spaCy | by Pooja Mahajan | Analytics Vidhya | Medium
September 18, 2020 - Now, in order to add Suprdaily as a named entity, we can use ‘spacy.tokens.Span’ which takes the doc object, start and end ranges of the token for the named entity to be added, and a label value (in our case label=” ORG ”) as arguments.
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Label Studio
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Label Studio Documentation — Use spaCy models with Label Studio
NEW Native Support for Chat-Based AI in Label Studio Enterprise ... This ML backend provides a simple way to use spaCy models for Named Entity Recognition (NER) and Part-of-Speech (POS) tagging.
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MLK
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Named Entity Recognition (NER) in Spacy Library - MLK - Machine Learning Knowledge
August 7, 2021 - The Spacy model is pre-trained to recognize these entities, however, we can also add our own arbitrary classes to the entity recognition system, and update the model with new examples. In the below example of Spacy NER, we first create a Spacy object and instantiate it with the sample text and assign it to doc variable. The named entities can be simply extracted by iterating over the doc.ent object. In each iteration the entity text is printed by using ent.text and entity label by using ent.label_.
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Medium
medium.com › ubiai-nlp › fine-tuning-spacy-models-customizing-named-entity-recognition-for-domain-specific-data-3d17c5fc72ae
Fine-Tuning SpaCy Models: Customizing Named Entity Recognition for Domain-Specific Data | by Wiem Souai | UBIAI NLP | Medium
February 6, 2024 - The “start” attribute represents the position of the starting character, while “end” indicates where the label ends in the sentence. This structured format allows for precise annotation of entities within the textual content. ... This code snippet is instrumental in preparing the training data in the correct format for training a SpaCy Named Entity Recognition (NER) model.