r</em>) – The message (utterance) for which we are counting named entities.</p></li>
<li><p><strong>target</strong> (<em>str</em>) – The named entity.</p></li>
<li><p><strong>type</strong> (<em>str</em>) – The entity type (e.g. PERSON, ORG, LOC, PRODUCT, LANGUAGE, etc.)</p></li>
</ul>
</dd>
<dt class="field-even">Returns<span class="colon">:</span></dt>
<dd class="field-even"><p>The message and a dictionary of its identified named entities associated with
the start and end characters and the type of n