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Extract Entities

🤖 AI Drafted (Not reviewed)

Extract named entities (people, places, dates, organizations) from text

Tool id extract_entities
Category llm
Uses a language model yes
Needs a generative model no
Runs over many items yes
Item handling elementwise
Structured output yes
Human-verified not yet

What it reads

Port Type Required What it is
Text (text) text yes Text to extract entities from
Context (context) any no Previous text/transcription
Metadata (metadata) json no Existing metadata
Documents (documents) json no Document metadata

What it emits

Port Type Required What it is
Entities (entities) json — Extracted entities by category
Text (text) text — Raw text response
Value (value) any — Parsed value
Texts (texts) array — Per-item texts
Values (values) array — Per-item values
Results (results) json — Full results
Records (records) array — Per-document text records [{doc_id, text}, …].
Artifacts (artifacts) json — Artifact IDs

Options

Option Type Default What it does
choices array — Valid choices. (Not shown in the editor.)
chunk_size_chars integer 0 Chunk large input text above this character budget (0=auto).
deduplicate boolean yes Remove duplicates.
entity_types array [“people”, “organizations”, “locations”, “dates”] Entity types.
include_context boolean no Show context.
match_mode string prefer Match mode. One of: prefer, strict, inform.
max_items integer 10 List max items.
max_tokens integer 8192 Max response.
max_words integer 50 Word limit.
metadata_field string — Save to field.
model_name string — Model name.
output_format string text Response format. One of: text, boolean, choice, number, words, list, json.
prompt string — Custom prompt.
provider_name string — LLM provider. One of: openai, anthropic, google, ollama, lmstudio, groq, together, deepseek, mistral, openrouter, dashscope, xai, perplexity, fireworks, deepl.
quality_gate boolean yes Stop the run if output is unreadable.
reference_values object — Known values to match. (Not shown in the editor.)
save_to_db boolean yes Save to library.
save_to_file boolean no Export to file.
temperature number 0.7 Creativity.
thinking_mode string off Chain-of-thought reasoning depth. One of: off, short, medium, long.

The prompt it sends

This is what the tool asks a model, with every option left at its default. Changing the options above changes this text.

Extract named entities from the following text.

Entity types to extract:
- people: names of individuals, including full names and nicknames
- organizations: companies, institutions, agencies, groups
- locations: places, addresses, cities, countries, geographic features
- dates: dates, time periods, years, centuries



Return the results as valid JSON with entity types as keys and arrays of entities as values.
Example format:
{
    "people": ["John Smith", "Jane Doe"],
    "organizations": ["Acme Corp"],
    "locations": ["New York", "Paris"],
    "dates": ["January 1920", "1945"]
}

Return only valid JSON, no other text.