Adding a tag to an entity in spaCy's displaCy named entity visualizer

Question

Is there a way to use spaCy's displaCy Named Entity Visualizer and add an additional term after the entity's type? Our application tries to link each entity mention to a Wikidata item. We'd like to include a Wikidata QID after the type if one is found.

Answer 1

No, the Named Entity Visualizer doesn't support that.

It's a pretty recent feature but I believe the span visualizer can do what you want. You should save your WikiData IDs using the kb_id property on spans, similar to how the Entity Linker works, and then you can add links directly.