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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def count_annotation_entries(self) -> int: """Count the number of annotation entries in the database."""

        return self.session.query(NamespaceEntry).filter(NamespaceEntry.is_annotation).count()