NER finds and labels names, places, companies, and other key things in text.
NER is the school office sorting lost-and-found notes. It circles “Mia,” “Room 12,” and “Chess Club” before the hoodie goes on a world tour.
It pulls key names and places from text. It helps content checks. It also helps Knowledge Graphs and tracking online talk.
IE
NER gives IE entities before it finds relations.
Sequence Labeling
NER often uses Sequence Labeling to tag each word.
NLP
NER is a classic NLP task for understanding text.
Knowledge Graph
NER gives Knowledge Graphs the nodes they need.