I don’t know how it compares with other paid alternatives (like Google’s or Amazon’s) but spaCy’s NER was pretty close to the (paid) service we were using (IBM

I don’t know how it compares with other paid alternatives (like Google’s or Amazon’s) but spaCy’s NER was pretty close to the (paid) service we were using (IBM) to the point we ditched IBM. Also for news articles. But yeah disambiguation/entity linking would be nice.