Is it possible to distinguish between entity types?

[redstar12]

Is it possible to distinguish between entity types? e.g. whether the recognized ORG is a company, agency or institution or whether the recognized FAC is an airport highway, bridge etc.?

[svlandeg]

We typically advice to label entities with broad categories, as Named Entity Recognition won't necessarily see the difference in text between different types of organizations (if there are no lexical clues). To do this, you start getting more into the realm of Entity linking / disambiguation. That said - you could always try training a spancat or ner model on these type of sublabels. For instance, bridges vs highways might be doable to recognize as I'd assume the lexical context will provide this information.