---
title: "Named Entity Recognition"
url: https://docs.catalyst.zoho.com/en/sdk/python/v1/zia-services/text-analytics/named-entity-recognition/
description: "This page describes the method to use the named entity recognition feature in your Python application with sample code snippets."
last_updated: 2025-11-19T15:07:41Z
service: Zia Services
type: general
related_links:
  - name: "Named Entity Recognition Help"
    url: /en/zia-services/help/text-analytics/key-concepts/#named-entity-recognition
  - name: "Named Entity Recognition - API"
    url: /en/api/code-reference/zia-services/text-analytics/named-entity-recognition/#NamedEntityRecognition
  - name: "SDK Scopes"
    url: /en/sdk/python/v1/sdk-scopes
---

# Named Entity Recognition

[Zia Named Entity Recognition](https://docs.catalyst.zoho.com/en/zia-services/help/text-analytics/key-concepts/#named-entity-recognition) is a part of Text Analytics that processes textual content to extract key words and group them into various categorizes. For example, it can determine a word in a text to be the name of an organization, the name of a person, or a date, and add it to the appropriate category accordingly. Refer [here](https://docs.catalyst.zoho.com/en/zia-services/help/text-analytics/key-concepts/#named-entity-recognition) for a list of all categories recognized by NER.

The response returns an array of all the entities recognized in the text, and a tag indicating the category they belong
to. It will also contain the confidence score of each categorization in percentage values, to showcase its accuracy. The
response also returns the location of the entity in the text through its start index and end index.

You can pass a block of text as the input of upto **1500 characters** in a single request, as shown
below. The text is passed to `get_NER_prediction()`.

To know more about the component instance `zia` used below, please refer to [this help section](https://docs.catalyst.zoho.com/en/sdk/python/v1/zia-services/get-component-instance/).

**Parameters Used**

<table class="content-table">
	<thead>
		<tr>
			<th class="w20p">Parameter Name</th>
         <th class="w20p">Data Type</th>
      <th class="w60p">Definition</th>
		</tr>
	</thead>
	<tbody>
    <tr>
			<td>`text`</td>
         <td>String</td>
			<td>A **Mandatory** parameter. Will store the text in which entities has to be recognized.</td>
		</tr>
	</tbody>
</table>

```python
zia = app.zia()
result = zia.get_NER_prediction(
    [
        "Zoho Corporation, is an Indian multinational technology company that makes web-based business tools. It is best known for Zoho Office Suite. The company was founded by Sridhar Vembu and Tony Thomas and has a presence in seven locations with its global headquarters in Chennai, India, and corporate headquarters in Pleasanton, California."
    ]
)

```

The sample response is shown below :

```json

{
   "ner":{
      "general_entities":[
         {
            "start_index":0,
            "confidence_score":98,
            "end_index":16,
            "ner_tag":"Organization",
            "token":"Zoho Corporation"
         },
         {
            "start_index":24,
            "confidence_score":99,
            "end_index":30,
            "ner_tag":"Miscellaneous",
            "token":"Indian"
         },
         {
            "start_index":122,
            "confidence_score":90,
            "end_index":139,
            "ner_tag":"Miscellaneous",
            "token":"Zoho Office Suite"
         },
         {
            "start_index":168,
            "confidence_score":99,
            "end_index":181,
            "ner_tag":"Person",
            "token":"Sridhar Vembu"
         },
         {
            "start_index":186,
            "confidence_score":96,
            "end_index":197,
            "ner_tag":"Person",
            "token":"Tony Thomas"
         },
         {
            "start_index":220,
            "confidence_score":100,
            "end_index":225,
            "ner_tag":"Number",
            "token":"seven"
         },
         {
            "start_index":268,
            "confidence_score":99,
            "end_index":275,
            "ner_tag":"City",
            "token":"Chennai"
         },
         {
            "start_index":277,
            "confidence_score":98,
            "end_index":282,
            "ner_tag":"Country",
            "token":"India"
         },
         {
            "start_index":314,
            "confidence_score":99,
            "end_index":324,
            "ner_tag":"City",
            "token":"Pleasanton"
         },
         {
            "start_index":326,
            "confidence_score":91,
            "end_index":336,
            "ner_tag":"State",
            "token":"California"
         }
      ]
   }
}

```

> **Info :** Refer to the [SDK Scopes table](https://docs.catalyst.zoho.com/en/sdk/python/v1/sdk-scopes) to determine the required permission level for performing the above operation.