# Anotation task format for ner\_manual interface

**URL:** <https://support.prodi.gy/t/anotation-task-format-for-ner-manual-interface/1501>\
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**Tags:** usage, ner, solved\
**Created:** [May 9, 2019, 6:50am UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/anotation-task-format-for-ner-manual-interface/1501 "2019-05-09T06:50:45Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 8:52am UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/anotation-task-format-for-ner-manual-interface/1501/2 "2019-05-09T08:52:39Z")

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Hi! What happens if you just load in your data the way it is? If no `"tokens"` are present, Prodigy will use the model’s tokenizer to generate them automatically for you 🙂

The only thing that’s important is that your entity spans align with the token boundaries – for instance, “Apple” is fine, because that’ll be one token. But the span “Apple up” wouldn’t because “up” isn’t a standalone token. If the pre-annotated spans don’t align, Prodigy will raise an error and show you the mismatch, so you can fix it. It usually shouldn’t happen, though – unless your data is very noisy.

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