"invalid whitespace entity spans" error while validation training and test data for NER

[abrarsharif66]

How to reproduce the behaviour

I have use the following piece of code to convert json to spacy while validationg using spacy --debug i get whitespace error:

please help me how to resolve this

for text, annot in tqdm(TRAIN_DATA['annotations']):
doc = nlp.make_doc(text)
ents = []
for start, end, label in annot["entities"]:
span = doc.char_span(start, end, label=label, alignment_mode="contract")
if span is None:
print("Skipping entity")
else:
ents.append(span)
doc.ents = ents
db.add(doc)
db.to_disk("train_data.spacy")

Info about spaCy

• spaCy version: 3.7.5
• Platform: Linux-6.1.85+-x86_64-with-glibc2.35
• Python version: 3.10.12
• Pipelines: en_core_web_lg (3.7.1), en_core_web_sm (3.7.1)

• Operating System:
• Python Version Used:
• spaCy Version Used:
• Environment Information:

[abrarsharif66]

sample JSON file of my train data for better understanding of schema:

{"classes":["SOFTWARE_NAME","JOB_TYPE","EDUCATION","UNIVERSITY","DEGREE","YEARS_OF_EXPERIENCE","STATE","CITY","COUNTRY","PROGRAMING_CONCEPT","COMPANY_NAME","PROGRAMMING_LANGUAGE","FRAMEWORKS","SOFT_SKILLS","JOB_TITLE","NAME","EMAIL","PH.NO"],"annotations":[["Zixuan Wu zixwu@ucdavis.edu",{"entities":[[0,9,"NAME"],[10,27,"EMAIL"]]}],["1363 Briones Ct | Pleasanton, CA 94588 | (510) 676-7461",{"entities":[[41,55,"PH.NO"]]}]]}