from spacy.lang.en import English from spacy.pipeline import merge_entities def test_issue5918(): # Test edge case when merging entities. nlp = English() ruler = nlp.add_pipe("entity_ruler") patterns = [ {"label": "ORG", "pattern": "Digicon Inc"}, {"label": "ORG", "pattern": "Rotan Mosle Inc's"}, {"label": "ORG", "pattern": "Rotan Mosle Technology Partners Ltd"}, ] ruler.add_patterns(patterns) text = """ Digicon Inc said it has completed the previously-announced disposition of its computer systems division to an investment group led by Rotan Mosle Inc's Rotan Mosle Technology Partners Ltd affiliate. """ doc = nlp(text) assert len(doc.ents) == 3 # make it so that the third span's head is within the entity (ent_iob=I) # bug #5918 would wrongly transfer that I to the full entity, resulting in 2 instead of 3 final ents. doc[29].head = doc[33] doc = merge_entities(doc) assert len(doc.ents) == 3