aren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">text</span></span></em>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">cutoff</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#features.named_entity_recognition_features.num_named_entity" title="Link to this definition"></a></dt>
<dd><p>Returns the number of named entities in a message.</p>
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<dt class="field-odd">Parameters<span class="colon">:</span></dt>
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