What is format for marking up possessives on entities (Tom's)

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If I want to recognize Tom as a person entity, is it this:

- It is [Tom](person)'s

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That should work. Both tokenizers (WhitespaceTokenizer SpacyTokenizer) will split the text into "It" "is" "Tom" "s".

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Thx @Tanja.

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Hi @Tanja, can you confirm the WhitespaceTokenizer would break on the single quote?

Here it says it won’t (the big “Warning” in the middle of the page):

https://rasa.com/docs/rasa/user-guide/evaluating-models/#comparing-nlu-pipelines

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Good catch. The warning is incorrect. I can confirm that the WhitespaceTokenizer splits Brian's into multiple tokens.

I created an issue to update the docs: Incorrect warning about WhitespaceTokenizer · Issue #4605 · RasaHQ/rasa · GitHub

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Thanks again.