Even though the 2-stage approach seems intuitive at first, it can not compete with the results obtained by the state of the art architecture. Surprisingly, the architecture failed to provide a high recall (this is already apparent after the first pass, where the recall is similar to the state of the art system, however no exact borders can be predicted). A possible explanation for this result is the high amount of about 50% of tokens with only a single appearance in the text. Since only two context tokens to the left and the right are used, the architecture has a shortcoming compared to the Bi-LSTM-CRF, which encodes the entire sentence. The architecture does especially fail to recognize references that contain the token “von” (such as “Baron von Instetten)”. While being competitive in terms of the precision, further work has to be done to increase the recall for this approach.