Get Person names as entity from user input

Rasa Open Source
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Hello everyone, I am trying to get person names from text, it is working but not 100% accurate, can anyone suggest the best way to do this?

Thank you in advance!

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Hi @MariamHar :wave: Can you describe what you are doing currently to extract names for your bot?

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Hi @m.vielkind, I am getting person names as entity, lets say we have this user input: My name is Mariam Harfouch.
I want to get only “Mariam Harfouch” and save in entity name: username.
My nlu file look like this : My name is [X]{“entity”:“username”} .
It is working but It is not accurate because sometimes names are identical to verbs or other values in other intents.

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One option here is to include the SpacyEntityExtractor in your NLU pipeline. This will leverage Spacy’s pre-trained entity extractors for extracting entities like names that could improve the accuracy extracting names from user messages.

This blog post explains how you can implement SpacyEntityExtractor with your bot:

Using Custom spaCy Components in Rasa