import re


def clean_entity(entity):
    """
    Remove definite article from named entities
    :param entity: a named entity extracted by Hans
    :return: the same without "le, la, le..."
    """
    entity = str(entity)
    regex = r"^\b(le|la|l\s+'|l'|les)\b\s*"

    # You can manually specify the number of replacements by changing the 4th argument
    return re.sub( regex, "", entity, 0, re.MULTILINE | re.IGNORECASE )