# Regex entity names

**URL:** <https://forum.rasa.com/t/regex-entity-names/11739>\
**Category:** Rasa Open Source\
**Created:** [June 19, 2019, 3:15pm UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/regex-entity-names/11739 "2019-06-19T15:15:13Z")\
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@rmiiitb did you get anywhere with this? I’m having a similar problem perhaps the regex recognizer needs to be configured?

> [@How to capture wildcards / user name?](http://forum.rasa.com/t/how-to-capture-wildcards-user-name/25273/5):
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> I think that you need to add more example in the NLU in order to train it. The confidences in intents aren’t really good on some examples… For the entity name extraction you maybe can use SpacyEntityExtractor. There is a PERSON entity in it, it may help you blush

It seems you would need to add it to your pipeline config.yml

> **[Tuning Your NLU Model](https://rasa.com/docs/rasa/tuning-your-model/)**

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