# Is Entity Recognition pipeline component required/used for Intent Classification?

**URL:** <https://forum.rasa.com/t/is-entity-recognition-pipeline-component-required-used-for-intent-classification/21554>\
**Category:** \[Deprecated\] Rasa X Community Edition\
**Created:** [November 21, 2019, 4:25pm UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/is-entity-recognition-pipeline-component-required-used-for-intent-classification/21554 "2019-11-21T16:25:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![benharrell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/34f0e0/32.png) [@benharrell](https://forum.rasa.com/u/benharrell)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2019, 4:25pm UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/is-entity-recognition-pipeline-component-required-used-for-intent-classification/21554/1 "2019-11-21T16:25:04Z")

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I am using a separate entity recognition engine but would still like to use RASA for intent classification. Will disabling the Entity Recognition step in the pipeline affect the intent classification?

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**Author:** ![amn41](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forum.rasa.com/amn41/32/20_2.png) [@amn41](https://forum.rasa.com/u/amn41)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2020, 10:21am UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/is-entity-recognition-pipeline-component-required-used-for-intent-classification/21554/2 "2020-05-20T10:21:56Z")

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in earlier versions of Rasa, intents and entities were always fully independent. But with the new model, DIET, you have the option of training both, or just one of the two, see [Introducing DIET: state-of-the-art architecture that outperforms fine-tuning BERT and is 6X faster to train](https://blog.rasa.com/introducing-dual-intent-and-entity-transformer-diet-state-of-the-art-performance-on-a-lightweight-architecture/)

But yes, you can always just use Rasa for intent classification and use a different system for NER