In spaCy is there a way to extract the sentence the entity has been extracted from?

Question

considering the following sentence:

"the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"

and if I want to extract brown, extracting only brown is fairly easy to do however I want the following output:

"brown" , "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"

Answer 1

Yes, there is a way to do this in Spacy. You have to iterate over the entity Span objects and extract the sentence from each Span object. Here is an example:

    doc = nlp("John and Claire live in London. They have a dog. Claire walks her 
    dog everyday.")
    for entity in doc.ents:
       print('Entity extracted : ', entity.text)
       print('Sentence extracted from : ', entity.sent)

This should give you the following output :

Entity extracted :  John
Sentence extracted from :  John and Claire live in London.

Entity extracted :  Claire
Sentence extracted from :  John and Claire live in London.

Entity extracted :  London
Sentence extracted from :  John and Claire live in London.

Entity extracted :  Claire
Sentence extracted from :  Claire walks her dog everyday.

Entity extracted :  everyday
Sentence extracted from :  Claire walks her dog everyday.