Named entity recognition training data

Label the people, organizations, products, places, and domain terms in your text. Build NER datasets with precise spans, structured attributes, and reviewer-validated annotations.
Named Entity Recognition example with source-data annotations and contextual photographs.

Turn language into labeled entities

Create consistent examples across business text, product language, and specialized terminology.
Text with precise person, organization, location, and domain entity spans.

Business entities

Mark people, organizations, and locations in the sentences where they appear, preserving the context needed to train entity recognition models.
Text with labeled product and issue mentions.

Product and service mentions

Identify product names and service terms in customer language so models learn the vocabulary your business actually uses.
Text with quantity, item, and date annotations.

Dates and quantities

Label exact date, amount, and quantity spans with classes defined for your extraction task.
Scientific text with biomolecule and sample-type entity labels.

Specialized terminology

Label scientific, legal, or industry-specific terms with entity classes defined for the vocabulary in your dataset.

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Annotation types for named entity recognition

Combine exact text spans with structured relationships and properties that describe the language task.
Text with precise person, organization, location, and domain entity spans.

Entity spans

Select the exact characters that make up an entity and assign its class, preserving the original text context.

Entity properties

Add structured attributes such as entity subtype or annotation certainty using the choices defined in your ontology.

Organization entity with a structured sector property.

Named Entity Recognition FAQs

What is named entity recognition annotation?

NER annotation marks named or domain-specific entities within text so a model can learn which characters refer to a person, organization, place, product, or another defined concept.

Can I define my own entity categories?

Yes. Create classes for the entities that matter to your task, including specialized product, scientific, or business terminology. Use properties to capture further context.

How precise are the entity labels?

Annotators select text spans rather than labeling only the sentence. The selected characters and entity class are saved with the annotation.

Can the same phrase need different labels in different contexts?

Yes. Your ontology and guidelines define how context determines the class. Reviewers can inspect the surrounding sentence when an entity mention is ambiguous.

Can entity annotations include relationships?

Yes. Supported entity relationships can connect labeled mentions within the text, extending entity recognition datasets with the links required by an information extraction task.

How should a team handle inconsistent span boundaries?

Define examples in the labeling guidelines, discuss difficult cases during review, and apply the same boundary rule across the dataset before creating a release.

Which text inputs can I use?

Use plain-text files for native language annotation. Define entity classes, relationships, and item properties around the text and task your team is labeling.

How can teams review the language labels?

Route annotated text through review, resolve comments and corrections in context, and use configured consensus or approved benchmarks to check consistency before releasing a dataset.

Can I export the annotated text for model development?

Yes. Text supports JSONL and Unitlab Unified Export Format. Choose the export that preserves the entities, relations, and properties needed by your training pipeline.