In this exercise, we created a simple transformer based named entity recognition model. We trained it on the CoNLL 2003 shared task data and got an overall F1 score of around 70%. State of the art NER models fine-tuned on pretrained models such as BERT or ELECTRA can easily get much higher F1 score -between 90-95% on this dataset owing to the inherent knowledge of words as part of the pretraining process and the usage of subword tokenization.