# Training prodigy ner data through spacy

**URL:** <https://support.prodi.gy/t/training-prodigy-ner-data-through-spacy/2398>\
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**Tags:** usage, ner, spacy, solved\
**Created:** [January 7, 2020, 7:31am UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/training-prodigy-ner-data-through-spacy/2398 "2020-01-07T07:31:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![adriane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/46a35a/32.png) [@adriane](https://support.prodi.gy/u/adriane)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 1:58pm UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/training-prodigy-ner-data-through-spacy/2398/2 "2020-01-07T13:58:23Z")

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Hi, there's a built-in spacy converter that's intended for use with prodigy NER data:

```python
spacy convert --lang en data.jsonl .

```

This should create `data.json` in spacy's training format. You need to specify the language so that the converter can tokenize the texts.

See a more detailed example here: [Unable to use Prodigy annotations with SpaCy CLI train](https://support.prodi.gy/t/unable-to-use-prodigy-annotations-with-spacy-cli-train/2084)

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