# Ignore or reject in text with many entities

**URL:** <https://support.prodi.gy/t/ignore-or-reject-in-text-with-many-entities/711>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Tags:** usage, ner, solved\
**Created:** [July 25, 2018, 8:01pm UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/ignore-or-reject-in-text-with-many-entities/711 "2018-07-25T20:01:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![jotacll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@jotacll](https://support.prodi.gy/u/jotacll)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2018, 8:01pm UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/ignore-or-reject-in-text-with-many-entities/711/1 "2018-07-25T20:01:59Z")

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Hi! Iam new using prodigy and I have some doubts about choosing mainly ignore or reject:

- When we run ner.teach and we find a text that has some entities with correct predictions and some entities with wrong predictions, what should we choose: accept, reject or ignore?

- When we run ner.make-gold and we have a text where there are no entities should we chose reject (as if we did understand the text but there is none of the entities we need) or ignore (as if we didn´t understand the text at all).

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**Author:** ![andy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/support.prodi.gy/andy/32/966_2.png) [@andy](https://support.prodi.gy/u/andy)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2018, 6:19pm UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/ignore-or-reject-in-text-with-many-entities/711/2 "2018-07-26T18:19:52Z")

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When you do `ner.teach`, it should just highlight one entity at a time, rather than all the entities in the piece of text. Is it highlighting multiple spans for you?

When there are (correctly) no entities I would answer `accept`. See [this thread](https://support.prodi.gy/t/ambiguous-ner-annotation-decisions/105/2) for a discussion of when to accept or reject. tl;dr: if you’d be happy with your model returning those spans, accept, and if you’d not be happy, reject.

Hope that helps! (Just chiming in while @ines is off [being awesome](https://twitter.com/natalie_lavrio/status/1022522050173460482))

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**Author:** ![jotacll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@jotacll](https://support.prodi.gy/u/jotacll)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2018, 5:19pm UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/ignore-or-reject-in-text-with-many-entities/711/3 "2018-07-30T17:19:49Z")

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Thanks a lot for your answer Andy!. We will chose accept and see what happens with our model.