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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.