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However, existing approaches tend to ignore the spatial information of entities, leading to misclassification. Drawing on the human process of searching for addresses, this study proposes a multi-objective learning model named GNEMM that integrates the semantic and spatial information of geographical named entities. To further mimic the human cognitive process during address search, it incorporates the Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) technique. By integrating newly added external address data with an advanced large language model (LLM) like GPT-4, it achieves precise address evaluation and recommendation. The model was tested using a standard geographical named entity dataset from Shandong Province, focusing on three sub-tasks: element segmentation, matching, and spatial similarity score prediction. The experimental results indicate that the method achieves a geographical named entity matching accuracy of up to 99%, with improvements of 10% and 5% in the segmentation and prediction sub-tasks. 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