# Correcting ner.manual Annotations

**URL:** <https://support.prodi.gy/t/correcting-ner-manual-annotations/1341>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Tags:** usage, ner, solved\
**Created:** [March 25, 2019, 1:51pm UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/correcting-ner-manual-annotations/1341 "2019-03-25T13:51:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![cgreco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/54ee81/32.png) [@cgreco](https://support.prodi.gy/u/cgreco)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2019, 1:51pm UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/correcting-ner-manual-annotations/1341/1 "2019-03-25T13:51:20Z")

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Hello,

I have a dataset generated as a result of several annotators utilizing the ner.manual recipe. I would now like to go back and correct any mistakes they had made while annotating the data. Is there any easy way to do this in Prodigy?

To clarify, I’d like to go back and edit the existing annotations. Not utilize ner.make-gold to correct the model’s predictions.

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**Author:** ![ivo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ee7513/32.png) [@ivo](https://support.prodi.gy/u/ivo)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2019, 2:28pm UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/correcting-ner-manual-annotations/1341/2 "2019-03-25T14:28:19Z")

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perhaps try  
with a copy of the annotation to change all the answer to be “accept”: no

and then you can go through all of them and just “accept” the one you like, and correct the one you don’t

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**Author:** ![ines](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/support.prodi.gy/ines/32/3_2.png) [@ines](https://support.prodi.gy/u/ines)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2019, 2:32pm UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/correcting-ner-manual-annotations/1341/3 "2019-03-25T14:32:47Z")

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> [@ivo](#):
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> with a copy of the annotation to change all the answer to be “accept”: no

It'll even work without that part! 🙂

Prodigy's input and output data have the same format, so you can always load examples you've exported with `db-out` back into a given recipe to reannotate it. `ner.manual` respects pre-annotated spans that are already present in the data.

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**Author:** ![cgreco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/54ee81/32.png) [@cgreco](https://support.prodi.gy/u/cgreco)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2019, 1:26pm UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/correcting-ner-manual-annotations/1341/4 "2019-03-26T13:26:11Z")

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Great! Thank you!