How to delete ents in a doc

[Alvaro8gb]

I am trying to delete an entity but its giving me errors, with this code
doc[i].ent_type_ = ""
Can anyone help me ? :)

[ljvmiranda921]

Hi @Alvaro8gb , you have the following options here:

• Get all the entities with doc.ents, remove what you don't need, and set it back again.

entities = doc.ents
new_entities = delete_entities(entities)  # implement this
doc.ents = new_entities

• The doc.set_ents function also has parameters for setting entities as O (as in outside in IOB) like doc.set_ents(outside=[ent]) or you can set some as missing, like doc.set_ents(missing=[ent]).

[Alvaro8gb]

Thanks @ljvmiranda921, I solved it like this 2º Forms:

new_entities = []
new_entities.append(Span(doc, start, end, label=id))
doc.ents = new_entities

or

doc.set_ents([Span(doc, start, end, id)])

These is very useful if someone want to empower a NER model with regex recognition.