Entities & Semantic SEO
Named Entity
A specific, named entity — a person, organization, or location — identifiable in text.
CurrentLast updated: 2026-09-16
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Entities & Semantic SEOA named entity is a specific, named entity — a person, organization, location, or other uniquely identifiable thing — that can be recognized in text. Named entity recognition (NER) is a natural language processing technique that identifies named entities in content. Search engines use NER to build knowledge graphs.
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