Disabling a pipe through the config file vs CLI

[kudryk]

Should disabling a pipe in the configuration file be equivalent to do doing so through the load function?

I'm using 3.7.2.

My config file defines a pipeline as follows:

...

[nlp]
lang = "en"
pipeline = ["attribute_ruler", "geonames_lower_ruler", ..., "basin_ruler"]
batch_size = 1000
disabled = []
...

My model package is en_tsds_loc_fac.

If I load my model but specify that the basin_ruler pipe is to be disabled, I can run text through the nlp instance, then separately through the basin_ruler pipe and all works I intend.

nlp = spacy.load("en_tsds_loc_fac", disable="basin_ruler")
basin_ruler = nlp.get_pipe("basin_ruler")
doc = nlp(<some text>)
doc = basin_ruler(doc) # this works

If I instead specify in my config file to disable basin_ruler so I don't have to do so in load, the basin_ruler pipe does not work.

...

[nlp]
lang = "en"
pipeline = ["attribute_ruler", "geonames_lower_ruler", ..., "basin_ruler"]
batch_size = 1000
# pipe is disabled here
disabled = ["basin_ruler"]
...

Now I run the code:

nlp = spacy.load("en_tsds_loc_fac") # disable argument is not used to disable component here
basin_ruler = nlp.get_pipe("basin_ruler")
doc = nlp(<some text>) # This works as before
doc = basin_ruler(doc) # This now does not work

Passing the doc through the basin_ruler now results in the warning:

entityruler.py:415: UserWarning: [W036] The component 'basin_ruler' does not have any patterns defined.
  warnings.warn(Warnings.W036.format(name=self.name))

Looking at the config system documentation, I get the impression that it should be the same.

Going through the code, when the pipeline is assembled and the component is disabled in the config, it will not be initialized in the assembly CLI code. As a result, that components patterns (it is an instance of an entity ruler) are not loaded in to this entity ruler instance, thus the warning above.

When the documentation says "loaded" but disabled, this means to me that it should still be usable as in the first case.

Should disabling a pipe in the configuration file be equivalent to do doing so through the load function?

Thank you in advance.