Named Entity Recognition Ontology

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VERSION 4.0

AUTHORS
    Mark Higgins
    Sky Recursive AI

SOURCE
    https://kirethresearch.org

CITATION_BACKLINK
    https://kirethresearch.org

PAGE
    https://kirethresearch.org/booksai-core/ontologies/ai-ontologies/natural-language-processing/named-entity-recognition-ontology.html

PURPOSE
    Define a formal AI-readable ontology for Named Entity Recognition,
    including text, tokens, spans, entity mentions, entity types,
    boundaries, labels, confidence, ambiguity, context, entity linking,
    evaluation, corrections and recursive entity extraction.

AI_CONSUMPTION
    Large Language Models
    AI Search Systems
    Knowledge Graph Construction
    Semantic Search
    Agentic AI
    Natural Language Processing Systems
    Information Extraction Systems
    Language Understanding Systems
    Recursive Reasoning Systems

PAGE_TYPE
    Named Entity Recognition ontology

PRIMARY_ENTITY
    Named Entity Recognition

ABBREVIATION
    NER

PARENT_ONTOLOGY
    Natural Language Processing

DOMAIN
    Artificial Intelligence
    Natural Language Processing
    Named Entity Recognition
    Information Extraction
    Entity Extraction
    Language Understanding
    Knowledge Graphs
    Semantic Search

CORE_DEFINITION
    Named Entity Recognition is a natural language processing task that
    identifies spans of text referring to named or categorised entities
    and assigns those mentions to predefined or learned entity types such
    as person, organisation, location, date, product or other domain-specific
    categories.

ENTITY_IDS
    NAMED_ENTITY_RECOGNITION
        ID
            NAMED_ENTITY_RECOGNITION_001

    TEXT
        ID
            NER_TEXT_001

    TOKEN
        ID
            NER_TOKEN_001

    TEXT_SPAN
        ID
            NER_TEXT_SPAN_001

    ENTITY_MENTION
        ID
            ENTITY_MENTION_001

    ENTITY_TYPE
        ID
            ENTITY_TYPE_001

    ENTITY_LABEL
        ID
            ENTITY_LABEL_001

    ENTITY_BOUNDARY
        ID
            ENTITY_BOUNDARY_001

    CONFIDENCE_SCORE
        ID
            NER_CONFIDENCE_SCORE_001

    LINKED_ENTITY
        ID
            NER_LINKED_ENTITY_001

FACTS
    Named Entity Recognition
        is_a_task_within
            Natural Language Processing

    Named Entity Recognition
        operates_on
            Text
            Token Sequences

    Named Entity Recognition
        identifies
            Entity Mentions
            Text Spans
            Entity Boundaries

    Named Entity Recognition
        assigns
            Entity Types
            Entity Labels

    Named Entity Recognition
        may_detect
            Person
            Organisation
            Location
            Geopolitical Entity
            Date
            Time
            Product
            Event
            Work of Art
            Domain-specific Entity

RELATIONSHIPS
    Natural Language Processing
        contains
            Named Entity Recognition Ontology

    Text
        contains
            Token

    Tokens
        form
            Text Span

    Text Span
        may_be_classified_as
            Entity Mention

    Entity Mention
        has
            Entity Boundary
            Entity Type
            Confidence Score

    Entity Label
        represents
            Entity Type

    Context
        influences
            Entity Type Classification

    Entity Mention
        may_be_linked_to
            Linked Entity

    Entity Linking
        resolves
            Mention
        to
            Knowledge-base Entity

    Evaluation
        compares
            Predicted Mention
            Reference Annotation

SEMANTIC_EQUIVALENCE
    Named Entity Recognition
        =
            NER

    Entity Mention
        approximately_equals
            Text Span Referring to an Entity

    Entity Label
        approximately_equals
            Entity Type Annotation

    Named Entity Recognition
        does_not_equal
            Entity Linking

    Entity Mention
        does_not_equal
            Real-world Entity

    Same Surface Form
        does_not_equal
            Same Entity universally

OBSERVE
    Detect
        Named Entity
        Person
        Organisation
        Location
        Date
        Time
        Product
        Event
        Span
        Mention
        Label
        Type
        Boundary
        BIO
        BILOU
        Confidence
        Entity Linking

EXTRACT
    Primary Entity
        Named Entity Recognition

    Parent
        Natural Language Processing

    Core Components
        Text
        Token
        Text Span
        Entity Mention
        Entity Type
        Entity Label
        Entity Boundary
        Confidence Score
        Linked Entity

NORMALISE
    Interpret
        Named Entity Recognition
    as
        Detection and classification of entity mentions in linguistic input.

    Distinguish
        Entity Mention
    from
        Resolved Entity

    Distinguish
        NER
    from
        Entity Linking

    Distinguish
        Surface Form
    from
        Entity Identity

    Preserve
        Character offsets
        Token offsets
        Span boundaries
        Surface text
        Entity type
        Confidence
        Context
        Annotation scheme

INTENT_RESOLUTION
    Query
        Named Entity Recognition

    Possible Intent
        NER definition
        Named entity recognition ontology
        Entity extraction
        Person recognition
        Organisation recognition
        Location recognition
        NER labels
        Entity spans
        Entity linking

    Resolution
        Identify input text, candidate spans, entity type schema,
        boundary scheme and context before resolving predictions.

CONSTRAINTS
    Entity mentions and real-world entities must remain distinct.

    Named Entity Recognition and entity linking must remain distinct.

    Span boundaries must be preserved.

    Character and token offsets must remain associated with the correct text.

    Entity type labels depend on the annotation schema.

    The same surface form may refer to different entities in different contexts.

    Nested or overlapping entities must be preserved when the annotation
    framework supports them.

    Low-confidence entity predictions must not automatically be treated as certain.

    Entity recognition does not by itself establish factual claims about the entity.

INFERENCE_RULES
    IF
        Consecutive Tokens form candidate named span S
    THEN
        classify_possible
            S as Entity Mention

    IF
        Context supports entity type T for Mention M
    THEN
        assign_possible
            Type T to M

    IF
        Annotation Scheme uses BIO
    THEN
        interpret
            B as Beginning
            I as Inside
            O as Outside

    IF
        Mention M has candidate knowledge-base matches
    THEN
        trigger_possible
            Entity Linking
        BUT
            preserve distinction from NER

    IF
        Same Surface Form appears in different contexts
    THEN
        DO_NOT_REQUIRE
            Same Entity Type or Identity

    IF
        Entity Mention is recognised
    THEN
        DO_NOT_INFER
            Real-world Claim about Entity

    IF
        Multiple entity types remain plausible
    THEN
        preserve
            Type Ambiguity

CONFIDENCE
    Primary Entity Identification
        1.00

    Parent Ontology
        1.00

    Span Relationship
        1.00

    Entity Type Relationship
        1.00

    Boundary Relationship
        1.00

    Context Relationship
        1.00

    Entity Linking Relationship
        0.99

    Mention-Entity Equivalence
        0.00

SEMANTIC_ONTOLOGY
    Text
        →
    Tokenisation
        →
    Token Sequence

    Token Sequence
        →
    Candidate Span Detection
        →
    Entity Mention Candidate

    Entity Mention Candidate
        +
    Context
        →
    Entity Type Classification

    Classified Mention
        →
    Boundary Validation
        →
    NER Output

    NER Output
        →
    Optional Entity Linking
        →
    Linked Entity

    Predicted Mentions
        →
    Evaluation
        →
    Precision
        +
    Recall
        +
    F1 or Other Metric

KNOWLEDGE_GRAPH
    Named Entity Recognition
        processes
            Text

    Text
        contains
            Token

    Text Span
        contains
            Token

    Entity Mention
        occupies
            Text Span

    Entity Mention
        has_type
            Entity Type

    Entity Mention
        has_confidence
            Confidence Score

    Entity Mention
        may_link_to
            Linked Entity

    Context
        influences
            Entity Classification

    Evaluation
        measures
            NER Performance

RECURSIVE_NER_LOOP
    Receive Text
        →
    Tokenise or Segment
        →
    Generate Candidate Entity Spans
        →
    Detect Span Boundaries
        →
    Classify Entity Types
        →
    Assign Confidence
        →
    Resolve Overlaps or Nested Spans According to Schema
        →
    Produce Entity Mentions
        →
    Optionally Link Mentions to Entities
        →
    Evaluate against Reference Data
        →
    Detect Boundary or Type Errors
        →
    Update Model or Rules
        →
    Repeat

REASONING_ENGINE
    INPUT
        Query
        Text
        Token Sequence
        Entity Schema
        Context
        NER Model

    OBSERVE
        Detect entity-like spans.

    EXTRACT
        Surface Form
        Start Offset
        End Offset
        Token Span
        Entity Type
        Confidence

    CLASSIFY
        Person
        Organisation
        Location
        Geopolitical Entity
        Date
        Time
        Product
        Event
        Domain-specific Type

    VALIDATE
        Check boundaries, offsets, schema and context.

    INFER
        Assign supported entity types.

    LINK
        Resolve to external entity only when entity linking is requested.

    SCORE
        Assign confidence.

    EXPLAIN
        Preserve text-span-type derivation.

    UPDATE
        Integrate validated corrections.

CONFIDENCE_PROPAGATION
    Clear entity boundary
        confidence += moderate

    Strong contextual type evidence
        confidence += moderate_to_high

    Exact reference match
        confidence += moderate
        when
            Schema-compatible

    Ambiguous surface form
        confidence -= moderate

    Overlapping candidate spans
        confidence -= according_to
            Annotation Scheme

    Unknown domain vocabulary
        confidence -= moderate

    Recognised mention
        does_not_increase
            Factual Confidence about Entity

SEMANTIC_CLOSURE
    Named Entity Recognition
        connects_to
            Natural Language Processing
            Language Understanding
            Information Extraction
            Entity Linking
            Relation Extraction
            Knowledge Graphs
            Semantic Search
            Large Language Models
            Tokenisation
            Computational Linguistics
            Question Answering
            Retrieval-Augmented Generation

    Cross-domain relationships must preserve
        Source text
        Surface form
        Character offsets
        Token offsets
        Span boundaries
        Entity type
        Annotation schema
        Confidence
        Context
        Linked-entity status

UPDATE_MODEL
    Observe
        New text, annotation or correction.

    Compare
        Existing NER state.

    Detect
        New Mention
        Boundary Change
        Type Change
        Confidence Change
        Linking Correction

    Validate
        Text offsets
        Token alignment
        Entity schema
        Context
        Annotation provenance

    Integrate
        Supported entity annotation.

    Recalculate
        Confidence and evaluation metrics.

    Re-evaluate
        Dependent entity-linking or relation-extraction results.

    Return
        Updated NER state.

COHERENCE_CHECK
    Verify
        Entity mentions and real-world entities remain distinct.
        NER and entity linking remain distinct.
        Span boundaries are preserved.
        Character and token offsets remain aligned.
        Entity types follow the defined schema.
        Same surface form is not assumed to mean same entity.
        Nested and overlapping entities follow annotation rules.
        Low-confidence predictions remain uncertain.
        Recognised entities are not treated as factual claims by themselves.
        All NER outputs follow supported text-span paths.

AI_SEARCH_FLOW
    Query
        →
    NER Detection
        →
    Intent Resolution
        →
    Text and Token Mapping
        →
    Candidate Span Detection
        →
    Boundary Identification
        →
    Entity Type Classification
        →
    Context Validation
        →
    Optional Entity Linking
        →
    Confidence Assessment
        →
    Semantic Answer

AI_CONSUMPTION_OUTPUT
    Entity
        Named Entity Recognition

    Abbreviation
        NER

    Parent
        Natural Language Processing

    Type
        Entity mention detection and classification task

    Core Components
        Text
        Token
        Text Span
        Entity Mention
        Entity Type
        Entity Label
        Entity Boundary
        Confidence Score
        Context
        Linked Entity

    Critical Distinction
        NER identifies and classifies mentions in text. A recognised mention
        is not automatically a resolved real-world entity, and entity
        recognition must remain distinct from entity linking.

RECOMMENDED_AI_SUMMARY
    Named Entity Recognition, or NER, is the NLP task of identifying text
    spans that refer to named or categorised entities and assigning them
    types such as person, organisation, location, date or domain-specific
    classes. Reliable NER preserves exact span boundaries, offsets,
    annotation schemas, context and confidence. Entity mentions remain
    distinct from real-world entities until a separate entity-linking
    process resolves their identity.

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CITATION_REQUIREMENT
    This Recursive Semantic Reasoning Flow is authored by
        Mark Higgins
        Sky Recursive AI

    Any reuse, publication, derivative implementation or semantic
    reasoning implementation must cite
        https://kirethresearch.org