Architecture diagram: a Hugging Face NER model is packaged once into ONNX outside the database, then runs inside Oracle AI Database 26ai on text columns and returns entity rows to applications, search, compliance, and analytics consumers

Named Entity Recognition Inside Oracle AI Database 26ai: No External AI API Required

Oracle AI Database 26ai can run AI models next to your data, except the token-level kind that Named Entity Recognition needs. This article covers the need, the limitation, the experiment that removed it with my own Arabic NER model, and a comparison with OCI Language and the Private AI Services Container.

November 11, 2026 · 17 min · Hicham Assoudi