Finding People and Things - Natural Language Processing with Java - page 146

Using NLP APIs
We will demonstrate the NER process using OpenNLP, Stanford API, and LingPipe. Each
of these provide alternate techniques that can often do a good job of identifying entities in
the text. The following declaration will serve as the sample text to demonstrate the APIs:
String sentences[] = {"Joe was the last person to see Fred.
",
"He saw him in Boston at McKenzie's pub at 3:00 where he "
+ " paid $2.45 for an ale. ",
"Joe wanted to go to Vermont for the day to visit a cousin
who "
+ "works at IBM, but Sally and he had to look for Fred"};