AI engineering glossary · NLP embeddings
What is named entity?
Named entity (also called Entity mention): A word or phrase that refers to a specific real thing, like a named person, company, place, date, monetary value or product, as opposed to a general noun. Common category sets include PER, ORG, LOC and MISC.
Named entity: an example
"Tata Motors" is a named entity of type organisation, while "company" is not.
Related terms
More NLP embeddings terms
- Named entity recognition
- Natural language processing
- Natural language understanding
- Negative sampling
- NLTK
- One-hot word vector
- Out-of-vocabulary word
- Padding token
Where you learn it
Named entity is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.