What is Entity extraction?
Verified 5 August 2026
The step that turns unstructured text into graph nodes. The hard part is not detection but resolution — deciding that two mentions refer to the same entity, and that a third refers to a different one with the same name.
Once resolved, entities support queries that text retrieval cannot express: everything mentioning this organisation, everything co-mentioned with it, the shortest chain connecting it to something else.
How unlob handles this: dossier
Common questions
What is Entity extraction?
Entity extraction identifies people, organisations, places and products mentioned in text and links them to canonical identifiers.
How does Entity extraction work in practice?
Once resolved, entities support queries that text retrieval cannot express: everything mentioning this organisation, everything co-mentioned with it, the shortest chain connecting it to something else.
See it working
The free tier is 10,000 requests a month with no card — enough to test any of this against your own queries.