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Entity Extraction

Pulling structured entities (people, places, orgs, dates) from text.

1 min readupdated 2026-07-04

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Entity extraction converts unstructured text into typed fields. Modern approaches use an LLM with JSON mode and a schema instead of trained NER models. Pulling structured entities (people, places, orgs, dates) from text.

Pulling structured entities (people, places, orgs, dates) from text. Entity extraction converts unstructured text into typed fields. Modern approaches use an LLM with JSON mode and a schema instead of trained NER models. In practice: From 'Acme signed with Notion on March 3', extract { org_a: 'Acme', org_b: 'Notion', date: '2026-03-03' }.
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Entity extraction converts unstructured text into typed fields. Modern approaches use an LLM with JSON mode and a schema instead of trained NER models.
Example
From 'Acme signed with Notion on March 3', extract { org_a: 'Acme', org_b: 'Notion', date: '2026-03-03' }.
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What is Entity Extraction?

Entity extraction converts unstructured text into typed fields. Modern approaches use an LLM with JSON mode and a schema instead of trained NER models.

What is an example of Entity Extraction?

From 'Acme signed with Notion on March 3', extract { org_a: 'Acme', org_b: 'Notion', date: '2026-03-03' }.

Why does Entity Extraction matter?

Pulling structured entities (people, places, orgs, dates) from text.

What should I learn after Entity Extraction?

Open the related workflows and prompts further down this page: they show how this idea is applied in a real task, step by step.

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