# Pick out named entities

Model / text

A variant of [Extract meaning from text](https://meridian.online/operations/extract-meaning-from-text).

Find the people, places, organisations and other named things mentioned in each text.

Page: <https://meridian.online/operations/extract-meaning-from-text/pick-out-named-entities>

## Status

Not built yet.

arcform does not do this yet. [Its place on the roadmap](https://meridian.online/roadmap#extract-meaning-from-text)

## What other tools call it

Meridian's classification; an independent blind rating agreed on 95.7% of 324 rows (variant, version 3).

- Alteryx Designer: [`Named Entity Recognition`](https://help.alteryx.com/current/en/designer/tools/alteryx-intelligence-suite/text-mining/named-entity-recognition.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- RapidMiner Studio: [`Token Classification`](https://docs.rapidminer.com/latest/studio/operators/extensions/Generative%20Models/Models/Huggingface/Tasks/token_classification.html) (read 2026-09-27)