spaCy/website/docs/usage/101/_named-entities.md
Ines Montani e597110d31
💫 Update website (#3285)
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## Description

The new website is implemented using [Gatsby](https://www.gatsbyjs.org) with [Remark](https://github.com/remarkjs/remark) and [MDX](https://mdxjs.com/). This allows authoring content in **straightforward Markdown** without the usual limitations. Standard elements can be overwritten with powerful [React](http://reactjs.org/) components and wherever Markdown syntax isn't enough, JSX components can be used. Hopefully, this update will also make it much easier to contribute to the docs. Once this PR is merged, I'll implement auto-deployment via [Netlify](https://netlify.com) on a specific branch (to avoid building the website on every PR). There's a bunch of other cool stuff that the new setup will allow us to do – including writing front-end tests, service workers, offline support, implementing a search and so on.

This PR also includes various new docs pages and content.
Resolves #3270. Resolves #3222. Resolves #2947. Resolves #2837.


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A named entity is a "real-world object" that's assigned a name for example, a person, a country, a product or a book title. spaCy can recognize various types of named entities in a document, by asking the model for a prediction. Because models are statistical and strongly depend on the examples they were trained on, this doesn't always work perfectly and might need some tuning later, depending on your use case.

Named entities are available as the ents property of a Doc:

### {executable="true"}
import spacy

nlp = spacy.load("en_core_web_sm")
doc = nlp(u"Apple is looking at buying U.K. startup for $1 billion")

for ent in doc.ents:
    print(ent.text, ent.start_char, ent.end_char, ent.label_)
  • Text: The original entity text.
  • Start: Index of start of entity in the Doc.
  • End: Index of end of entity in the Doc.
  • LabeL: Entity label, i.e. type.
Text Start End Label Description
Apple 0 5 ORG Companies, agencies, institutions.
U.K. 27 31 GPE Geopolitical entity, i.e. countries, cities, states.
$1 billion 44 54 MONEY Monetary values, including unit.

Using spaCy's built-in displaCy visualizer, here's what our example sentence and its named entities look like:

import DisplaCyLongHtml from 'images/displacy-long.html'; import { Iframe } from 'components/embed'