# How to deal with ambiguity in annotations **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Tags:** usage, ner\ **Created:** [January 21, 2019, 11:19am UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/how-to-deal-with-ambiguity-in-annotations/1145 "2019-01-21T11:19:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![EFgit](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/support.prodi.gy/efgit/32/578_2.png) [@EFgit](https://support.prodi.gy/u/EFgit)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2019, 11:19am UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/how-to-deal-with-ambiguity-in-annotations/1145/1 "2019-01-21T11:19:58Z")
I am training a new entity `FULL_NAME` which would detect full names in texts, but I have a problem deciding what would be the correct way to handle names insides the addresses e.g. “ **Albert Einstein** DD _David Murray_ John Tower, Swindon, Wiltshire United Kingdom”, here I know that Albert Einstein is the person himself and David Murray is part of address and not a `FULL_NAME` in this context (according to my definition of full name). - What I am afraid of is that if the model will be able to learn the difference or the boundary of “it’s a full\_name or not” here is too fuzzy"? - If I choose to accept _David Murray_ as a `FULL_NAME`, with the idea that letter I could remove it with some rule-based approach, is it a problem that I have another entity `ADDRESS` which in this example would be: “DD David Murray John Tower, Swindon, Wiltshire United Kingdom”, and would overlap with the entity `FULL_NAME`? ---
**Author:** ![honnibal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/support.prodi.gy/honnibal/32/35_2.png) [@honnibal](https://support.prodi.gy/u/honnibal)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2019, 1:09am UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/how-to-deal-with-ambiguity-in-annotations/1145/2 "2019-01-24T01:09:02Z")
I do think you’ll be making your task quite difficult if you distinguish names inside addresses like that. On the other hand, it’s true that you’ll get the overlap issue, so you wouldn’t be able to have the same model do the addresses and the names, if they overlap. Have you considered annotating the elements of the address? So you would have subcategories like building, number, country etc. This might reduce the word-to-category ambiguity. The downside is it might take too much longer to annotate. ---
**Author:** ![EFgit](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/support.prodi.gy/efgit/32/578_2.png) [@EFgit](https://support.prodi.gy/u/EFgit)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2019, 1:17pm UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/how-to-deal-with-ambiguity-in-annotations/1145/3 "2019-01-24T13:17:00Z")
Hi @honnibal, thanks for the answer. > [@honnibal](#): > > Have you considered annotating the elements of the address? So you would have subcategories like building, number, country etc. This might reduce the word-to-category ambiguity. The downside is it might take too much longer to annotate. But again with this approach you would run into the same problem: _"DD David Murray John Tower, Swindon, Wiltshire United Kingdom"_ is David Murray a person or a street name? ---
**Author:** ![honnibal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/support.prodi.gy/honnibal/32/35_2.png) [@honnibal](https://support.prodi.gy/u/honnibal)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2019, 9:54pm UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/how-to-deal-with-ambiguity-in-annotations/1145/4 "2019-01-25T21:54:44Z")
I think I might not understand the address myself, actually! I thought `David Murray` was supposed to be the recipient? Or is it perhaps `David Murray John Tower`? If `David Murray` is the recipient you’d mark it as `PERSON`. If it’s `David Murray John Tower`, you’d probability use the facility label, `FAC`. ---
**Author:** ![EFgit](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/support.prodi.gy/efgit/32/578_2.png) [@EFgit](https://support.prodi.gy/u/EFgit)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2019, 9:01am UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/how-to-deal-with-ambiguity-in-annotations/1145/5 "2019-01-29T09:01:28Z")
> [@honnibal](#): > > I think I might not understand the address myself, actually! > > I thought `David Murray` was supposed to be the recipient? Or is it perhaps `David Murray John Tower` ? I will try to explain it better this time: _Albert Einstein DD David Murray John Tower, Swindon, Wiltshire United Kingdom_ How it should be processed is: Albert Einstein ---\> PERSON DD David Murray John Tower, Swindon, Wiltshire United Kingdom ---\> ADDRESS > [@honnibal](#): > > If it’s `David Murray John Tower` , you’d probability use the facility label, `FAC` Yes, this might be it...