diff --git a/spacy/pipeline.pyx b/spacy/pipeline.pyx
index bb4b96c02..2ce3bbb27 100644
--- a/spacy/pipeline.pyx
+++ b/spacy/pipeline.pyx
@@ -1201,5 +1201,12 @@ cdef class EntityRecognizer(Parser):
         return (EntityRecognizer, (self.vocab, self.moves, self.model),
                 None, None)
 
+    @property
+    def labels(self):
+        # Get the labels from the model by looking at the available moves, e.g.
+        # B-PERSON, I-PERSON, L-PERSON, U-PERSON
+        return [move.split('-')[1] for move in self.move_names
+                if move[0] in ('B', 'I', 'L', 'U')]
+
 
 __all__ = ['Tagger', 'DependencyParser', 'EntityRecognizer', 'Tensorizer', 'TextCategorizer']