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+from spacy.lang.en import English
+from spacy.lang.en.syntax_iterators import noun_chunks
+from spacy.tests.util import get_doc
+from spacy.vocab import Vocab
+
+
+def test_issue5458():
+    # Test that the noun chuncker does not generate overlapping spans
+    words = ["In", "an", "era", "where", "markets", "have", "brought", "prosperity", "and", "empowerment", "."]
+    vocab = Vocab(strings=words)
+    dependencies = ["ROOT", "det", "pobj", "advmod", "nsubj", "aux", "relcl", "dobj", "cc", "conj", "punct"]
+    pos_tags = ["ADP", "DET", "NOUN", "ADV", "NOUN", "AUX", "VERB", "NOUN", "CCONJ", "NOUN", "PUNCT"]
+    heads = [0, 1, -2, 6, 2, 1, -4, -1, -1, -2, -10]
+
+    en_doc = get_doc(vocab, words, pos_tags, heads, dependencies)
+    en_doc.noun_chunks_iterator = noun_chunks
+
+    # if there are overlapping spans, this will fail with an E102 error "Can't merge non-disjoint spans"
+    nlp = English()
+    merge_nps = nlp.create_pipe("merge_noun_chunks")
+    merge_nps(en_doc)