A method and an apparatus of recognizing a named entity are provided. The method of recognizing a named entity includes: acquiring to-be-processed electronic text, the to-be-processed electronic text including words, characters and/or symbols; generating, based on each word in the to-be-processed electronic text, a corresponding word vector, and generating, based on each character or symbol in the to-be-processed electronic text, a corresponding character vector; generating a feature vector according to the word vector and/or the character vector by using a BiLSTM model; and inputting the feature vector into a random field model to recognize a named entity and acquire a type of the named entity.