{"id":13929,"date":"2025-10-06T15:12:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T15:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nizamuddeen.com\/community\/?p=13929"},"modified":"2026-06-18T18:02:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T18:02:14","slug":"what-is-information-extraction-in-nlp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nizamuddeen.com\/community\/semantics\/what-is-information-extraction-in-nlp\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Information Extraction in NLP?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"13929\" class=\"elementor elementor-13929\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-71656030 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"71656030\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1da4c400 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1da4c400\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<blockquote><p>Information Extraction transforms unstructured text into structured forms, enabling downstream reasoning. It includes:<\/p><div class=\"ls-cards\"><div class=\"ls-card\"><p class=\"ls-card-h\">Named Entity Recognition (NER):<\/p><p>spotting entity mentions.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"ls-card\"><p class=\"ls-card-h\">Relationship Extraction (RE):<\/p><p>mapping links between entities.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"ls-card\"><p class=\"ls-card-h\">Event Extraction:<\/p><p>capturing actions and their participants.<\/p><\/div><\/div><p>NER provides the <strong>nodes<\/strong>, while RE supplies the <strong>edges<\/strong>, together, they form the backbone of an <a class=\"decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nizamuddeen.com\/community\/semantics\/what-is-an-entity-graph\/\" rel=\"noopener\">entity graph<\/a> . When extended across documents, these relationships evolve into a <a class=\"decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nizamuddeen.com\/community\/semantics\/what-is-semantic-content-network\/\" rel=\"noopener\">semantic content network<\/a> that fuels semantic search and knowledge retrieval.<\/p><\/blockquote><h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Why_Go_Beyond_NER\"><\/span>Why Go Beyond NER?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2><div class=\"ls-ans\"><p>Consider the sentence:<\/p><\/div><p><em>&#8220;Steve Jobs founded Apple in 1976.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><ul><li>NER \u2192 Steve Jobs (Person), Apple (Organization), 1976 (Date).<\/li><li>RE \u2192 (Steve Jobs, founder_of, Apple), (Apple, founded_in, 1976).<\/li><\/ul><p>The difference is clear: NER only identifies entities, while RE contextualizes them in relationships. Without this, search engines cannot establish <a class=\"decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nizamuddeen.com\/community\/semantics\/what-is-semantic-relevance\/\" rel=\"noopener\">semantic relevance<\/a> , which is critical for delivering meaningful answers.<\/p><p>In SEO, this step is essential because relationships allow Google to infer <a class=\"decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nizamuddeen.com\/community\/semantics\/what-is-topical-authority\/\" rel=\"noopener\">topical authority<\/a> by connecting related concepts within and across content clusters.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-13c7694 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"13c7694\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c1addb0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c1addb0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Early_Approaches_to_Relationship_Extraction\"><\/span>Early Approaches to Relationship Extraction<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2><h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Rule-Based_and_Pattern-Based_IE\"><\/span>Rule-Based and Pattern-Based IE<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3><p>In the early era, RE relied on handcrafted rules. For example: <em>&#8220;X was born in Y&#8221;<\/em> \u2192 <em>(Person, born_in, Location)<\/em>. While precise, these brittle rules struggled with variation.<\/p><p>This inspired <strong>Open Information Extraction<\/strong>, which attempted to extract triplets at scale. However, mapping raw triplets back into a structured <a class=\"decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nizamuddeen.com\/community\/semantics\/what-is-contextual-hierarchy\/\" rel=\"noopener\">contextual hierarchy<\/a> remained a challenge.<\/p><h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Distant_Supervision_for_RE\"><\/span>Distant Supervision for RE<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3><p>Distant supervision linked unstructured text with <strong>knowledge bases<\/strong> (e.g., Freebase, Wikidata). If a KB states <em>(Einstein, educated_at, ETH Zurich)<\/em>, sentences with both entities were labeled accordingly.<\/p><p>This approach scaled well but introduced noise, since co-occurrence doesn&#8217;t always mean relation. Later refinements combined weak supervision with denoising methods, improving both <strong>precision<\/strong> and <strong>recall<\/strong>.<\/p><p>These improvements fed directly into <a class=\"decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nizamuddeen.com\/community\/semantics\/what-is-query-optimization\/\" rel=\"noopener\">query optimization<\/a> pipelines, since structured facts improved both recall and ranking relevance.<\/p><h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Supervised_RE_Models\"><\/span>Supervised RE Models<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3><p>With annotated datasets (e.g., TACRED), supervised RE gained traction:<\/p><div class=\"ls-cards\"><div class=\"ls-card\"><p class=\"ls-card-h\">Logistic regression, SVMs<\/p><p>used hand-crafted features.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"ls-card\"><p class=\"ls-card-h\">CNNs, RNNs<\/p><p>captured patterns in text around entity pairs.<\/p><\/div><\/div><p>Supervised models excelled in accuracy but were limited by costly annotation needs.<\/p><p>Their real breakthrough was how they aligned extracted relations with <strong>knowledge-based trust<\/strong> signals, allowing systems to cross-check extracted facts for reliability.<\/p><hr class=\"ls-divider\"><h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Relationship_Extraction_vs_Information_Retrieval\"><\/span>Relationship Extraction vs Information Retrieval<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2><div class=\"ls-ans\"><p>While <strong>information retrieval (IR)<\/strong> focuses on fetching relevant documents, RE structures knowledge into facts. The synergy between the two is powerful:<\/p><\/div><ul><li><p>IR retrieves candidate passages.<\/p><\/li><li><p>RE turns passages into structured triplets.<\/p><\/li><\/ul><p>This improves <a class=\"decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nizamuddeen.com\/community\/semantics\/what-is-passage-ranking\/\" rel=\"noopener\">passage ranking<\/a> and ensures that extracted relationships reinforce both <strong>semantic similarity<\/strong> and contextual depth.<\/p><hr class=\"ls-divider\"><h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_SEO_and_Knowledge_Graph_Angle\"><\/span>The SEO and Knowledge Graph Angle<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2><div class=\"ls-ans\"><p>Relationship Extraction is not just academic, it&#8217;s pivotal for SEO and digital visibility:<\/p><\/div><div class=\"ls-cards\"><div class=\"ls-card\"><p class=\"ls-card-h\">Entity Graphs:<\/p><p>Establish semantic nodes and edges via structured <a class=\"decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nizamuddeen.com\/community\/semantics\/what-is-an-entity-graph\/\" rel=\"noopener\">entity graphs<\/a> .<\/p><\/div><div class=\"ls-card\"><p class=\"ls-card-h\">Topical Authority:<\/p><p>Strengthen your site&#8217;s authority by clustering relationships across content, reinforcing <a class=\"decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nizamuddeen.com\/community\/semantics\/what-is-topical-authority\/\" rel=\"noopener\">topical authority<\/a> .<\/p><\/div><div class=\"ls-card\"><p class=\"ls-card-h\">Contextual Hierarchy:<\/p><p>Define clear parent-child relationships through <a class=\"decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nizamuddeen.com\/community\/semantics\/what-is-contextual-hierarchy\/\" rel=\"noopener\">contextual hierarchy<\/a> .<\/p><\/div><div class=\"ls-card\"><p class=\"ls-card-h\">Semantic Content Networks:<\/p><p>Build interlinked pages into a <a class=\"decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nizamuddeen.com\/community\/semantics\/what-is-semantic-content-network\/\" rel=\"noopener\">semantic content network<\/a> that improves navigation and indexing.<\/p><\/div><\/div><hr class=\"ls-divider\"><h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Transformer-Based_Models_for_Relationship_Extraction\"><\/span>Transformer-Based Models for Relationship Extraction<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2><div class=\"ls-ans\"><p>The introduction of transformers reshaped RE. Models like <strong>BERT, RoBERTa, SpanBERT, and LUKE<\/strong> set new benchmarks for accuracy in recognizing relationships.<\/p><\/div><ul><li><p><strong>R-BERT<\/strong>: Introduces entity markers into BERT&#8217;s input to improve entity-pair classification.<\/p><\/li><li><p><strong>SpanBERT<\/strong>: Pretrained to predict spans, making it well-suited for tasks where entities and their relations are span-dependent.<\/p><\/li><li><p><strong>LUKE (Language Understanding with Knowledge-based Embeddings)<\/strong>: Integrates word and entity embeddings with entity-aware attention.<\/p><\/li><\/ul><p>These models excel because they capture <strong>contextual signals<\/strong> of <a class=\"decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nizamuddeen.com\/community\/semantics\/what-is-semantic-relevance\/\" rel=\"noopener\">semantic relevance<\/a> , going beyond surface-level similarity.<\/p><h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"SEO_Application\"><\/span>SEO Application<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3><p>Transformer-based RE enables automatic creation of <strong>knowledge-rich topical clusters<\/strong>. For example, SpanBERT can help classify complex relationships in medical content, which supports building an authoritative <strong>entity graph<\/strong>.<\/p><hr class=\"ls-divider\"><h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Joint_Models_Entities_Relations_and_Events_Together\"><\/span>Joint Models: Entities, Relations, and Events Together<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2><div class=\"ls-ans\"><p>Traditional pipelines separate NER and RE, but <strong>joint models<\/strong> integrate them:<\/p><\/div><div class=\"ls-cards\"><div class=\"ls-card\"><p class=\"ls-card-h\">DyGIE++<\/p><p>handles entities, relations, and events in one framework.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"ls-card\"><p class=\"ls-card-h\">TPLinker<\/p><p>links token pairs to capture overlapping relations.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"ls-card\"><p class=\"ls-card-h\">ONEIE<\/p><p>unifies IE tasks into a single semantic layer.<\/p><\/div><\/div><p>This approach mirrors how search engines build <strong>contextual hierarchy<\/strong>, not just identifying entities, but structuring them in layers of meaning.<\/p><h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"SEO_Implication\"><\/span>SEO Implication<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3><p>By applying joint models, websites can enhance <strong>topical authority<\/strong>, since their content naturally aligns entities, relations, and contextual depth within a single semantic space.<\/p><hr class=\"ls-divider\"><h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Document-Level_Relationship_Extraction\"><\/span>Document-Level Relationship Extraction<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2><div class=\"ls-ans\"><p>Real-world relations often span multiple sentences. Datasets like <strong>DocRED<\/strong> address this by requiring <strong>cross-sentence reasoning<\/strong>.<\/p><\/div><p>Example:<\/p><ul><li><p><em>&#8220;Marie Curie was born in Warsaw. She later won two Nobel Prizes.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/li><li><p>Relations must connect across sentences, not just within one.<\/p><\/li><\/ul><p>Document-level RE depends on coreference resolution and long-context modeling, similar to how <strong>page segmentation<\/strong> allows search engines to interpret content sections independently.<\/p><h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"SEO_Implication-2\"><\/span>SEO Implication<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3><p>This helps optimize <strong>passage ranking<\/strong>, as search engines extract relationships from deep within long-form content, giving smaller content fragments ranking power.<\/p><hr class=\"ls-divider\"><h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Generative_and_Universal_IE\"><\/span>Generative and Universal IE<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2><div class=\"ls-ans\"><p>The latest trend treats IE as a <strong>generation task<\/strong>:<\/p><\/div><div class=\"ls-cards\"><div class=\"ls-card\"><p class=\"ls-card-h\">REBEL<\/p><p>generates triplets (head, relation, tail).<\/p><\/div><div class=\"ls-card\"><p class=\"ls-card-h\">UIE<\/p><p>adapts prompts to perform any IE schema.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"ls-card\"><p class=\"ls-card-h\">InstructIE<\/p><p>enables IE through natural-language instructions.<\/p><\/div><\/div><p>These models excel at flexibility but risk hallucinations without schema constraints.<\/p><h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"SEO_Implication-3\"><\/span>SEO Implication<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3><p>Generative IE supports <strong>query optimization<\/strong> and entity-first indexing, producing structured outputs aligned with how search engines rank results. They also allow content to map into <strong>contextual bridges<\/strong> across clusters, connecting adjacent but distinct semantic domains.<\/p><hr class=\"ls-divider\"><h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Last_Thoughts_on_Relationship_Extraction\"><\/span>Last Thoughts on Relationship Extraction<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2><div class=\"ls-takeaways\"><h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Key_Takeaways\"><\/span>Key Takeaways<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3><ul><li>Information extraction converts unstructured text into structured data through named entity recognition, relationship extraction, and event extraction.<\/li><li>NER supplies the entity nodes and RE supplies the relationship edges, and together they form the backbone of an entity graph.<\/li><li>Early relationship extraction used handcrafted rules and distant supervision, which scaled but added noise that later denoising methods reduced.<\/li><li>Transformer models such as R-BERT, SpanBERT, and LUKE raised accuracy by capturing contextual signals around entity pairs.<\/li><li>Joint models and document-level methods extract entities, relations, and cross-sentence facts together, giving long-form content more ranking power.<\/li><li>Generative and universal extraction systems like REBEL and UIE offer schema flexibility but require constraints to limit hallucinated facts.<\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"ls-ans\"><p>Information Extraction has matured from simple entity spotting to <strong>knowledge-level reasoning<\/strong>. Transformer-based RE, joint models, document-level approaches, and generative IE all contribute to a richer web of meaning.<\/p><\/div><p>For SEO professionals, the takeaway is clear:<\/p><ul><li><p>Build and maintain <strong>entity graphs<\/strong>.<\/p><\/li><li><p>Strengthen <strong>semantic content networks<\/strong>.<\/p><\/li><li><p>Structure content around <strong>contextual hierarchy<\/strong>.<\/p><\/li><li><p>Ensure ongoing trust by aligning relations with <a class=\"decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nizamuddeen.com\/community\/semantics\/what-is-knowledge-based-trust\/\" rel=\"noopener\">knowledge-based trust<\/a> and freshness signals.<\/p><\/li><\/ul><hr class=\"ls-divider\"><h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Frequently_Asked_Questions_FAQs\"><\/span>Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2><details class=\"ls-faq\"><summary><h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Why_isnt_NER_enough\"><\/span><strong>Why isn&#8217;t NER enough?<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3><\/summary><p>NER identifies entities, but RE adds relationships that form the foundation of <a class=\"decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nizamuddeen.com\/community\/semantics\/what-is-entity-connections\/\" rel=\"noopener\">entity connections<\/a> .<\/p><\/details><details class=\"ls-faq\"><summary><h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Which_models_are_best_for_RE_today\"><\/span><strong>Which models are best for RE today?<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3><\/summary><p>SpanBERT and LUKE for supervised RE, DyGIE++ for joint IE, and REBEL\/UIE for generative IE.<\/p><\/details><details class=\"ls-faq\"><summary><h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"How_does_RE_improve_SEO\"><\/span><strong>How does RE improve SEO?<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3><\/summary><p>It powers <a class=\"decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nizamuddeen.com\/community\/semantics\/what-is-topical-authority\/\" rel=\"noopener\">topical authority<\/a> , improves <a class=\"decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nizamuddeen.com\/community\/semantics\/what-is-semantic-relevance\/\" rel=\"noopener\">semantic relevance<\/a> , and supports structured signals for ranking.<\/p><\/details><details class=\"ls-faq\"><summary><h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Whats_the_future_of_RE\"><\/span><strong>What&#8217;s the future of RE?<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3><\/summary><p>Instruction-tuned generative models that adapt dynamically to schema changes and serve as universal extractors.<\/p><\/details><details class=\"ls-faq\"><summary><h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_is_information_extraction_in_NLP\"><\/span>What is information extraction in NLP?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3><\/summary><p>Information extraction is the process of transforming unstructured text into structured forms that support downstream reasoning. It typically covers Named Entity Recognition to spot entity mentions, Relationship Extraction to map links between entities, and Event Extraction to capture actions and their participants. Together these turn plain text into nodes and edges that feed an entity graph.<\/p><\/details><details class=\"ls-faq\"><summary><h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_is_the_difference_between_named_entity_recognition_and_relationship_extraction\"><\/span>What is the difference between named entity recognition and relationship extraction?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3><\/summary><p>Named Entity Recognition identifies the entities in text, such as a person, organization, or date, which act as the nodes. Relationship Extraction then maps how those entities connect, such as founder_of or born_in, which act as the edges. For the sentence Steve Jobs founded Apple in 1976, NER finds the three entities while RE produces facts like Steve Jobs founder_of Apple.<\/p><\/details><details class=\"ls-faq\"><summary><h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_is_distant_supervision_in_relationship_extraction\"><\/span>What is distant supervision in relationship extraction?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3><\/summary><p>Distant supervision labels training data by linking unstructured text to an existing knowledge base such as Freebase or Wikidata. If the knowledge base states a fact like Einstein educated_at ETH Zurich, sentences containing both entities are labeled with that relation. The method scales well but introduces noise, since co-occurrence does not always imply a relation, so later work added denoising to improve precision and recall.<\/p><\/details><details class=\"ls-faq\"><summary><h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_is_event_extraction\"><\/span>What is event extraction?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3><\/summary><p>Event extraction captures actions described in text along with the participants involved in them. It goes beyond naming entities and linking pairs by representing what happened and who took part. This adds a layer of meaning that helps structure text into facts that systems can reason over.<\/p><\/details><details class=\"ls-faq\"><summary><h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_is_document-level_relationship_extraction\"><\/span>What is document-level relationship extraction?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3><\/summary><p>Document-level relationship extraction finds relations that span more than one sentence rather than only within a single sentence. For example, a passage may name Marie Curie in one sentence and refer to her achievements in the next, so the relation must connect across both. It depends on coreference resolution and long-context modeling, similar to how page segmentation lets systems interpret content sections independently.<\/p><\/details><details class=\"ls-faq\"><summary><h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_are_joint_models_in_information_extraction\"><\/span>What are joint models in information extraction?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3><\/summary><p>Joint models handle entities, relations, and sometimes events together in one framework instead of running them as separate steps. Examples include DyGIE++, which covers entities, relations, and events, TPLinker, which links token pairs to capture overlapping relations, and ONEIE, which unifies extraction tasks into a single layer. This mirrors how search engines structure entities into layers of meaning rather than just listing them.<\/p><\/details><details class=\"ls-faq\"><summary><h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_is_generative_information_extraction\"><\/span>What is generative information extraction?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3><\/summary><p>Generative information extraction treats extraction as a text generation task, producing structured outputs directly. REBEL generates head, relation, and tail triplets, UIE adapts prompts to perform any extraction schema, and InstructIE works from natural-language instructions. These approaches are flexible but risk hallucination unless they are constrained by a schema.<\/p><\/details><details class=\"ls-faq\"><summary><h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"How_does_relationship_extraction_support_knowledge_graphs\"><\/span>How does relationship extraction support knowledge graphs?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3><\/summary><p>Relationship extraction structures raw text into facts that become the nodes and edges of an entity graph or knowledge graph. By clustering relations across content it reinforces topical authority and defines parent-child connections through a contextual hierarchy. Aligning extracted relations with knowledge-based trust also lets systems cross-check facts for reliability.<\/p><\/details>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-3cfef58 elementor-section-content-middle elementor-reverse-tablet elementor-reverse-mobile elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"3cfef58\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-no\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-03f79e5\" data-id=\"03f79e5\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c6b529f elementor-widget 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