[Question]: Using Flair with ner-english doesnt recognize Lastname, Firstname

[gauti11]

Question

Hi, When using Flair and using the ner-english , I want the support for the Lastname, Firstname . Is there a way that can be achieved?

[raykyn]

I believe the dataset that the model was trained on doesn't feature a distinction between first and lastnames, so that model won't be able to do that. This practice is usual for most datasets, but maybe you can find an ner dataset which does indeed make the distinction, best to have a look around on huggingface.