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Entity Extract

Pulls people, organisations, money amounts and dates (and optionally email addresses and phone numbers) out of text by pattern, one column per kind.

When to use it

Use it to mine tickets, emails or notes for the names, amounts and dates in them so you can filter, join or count them.

In a pipeline

Settings

SettingTypeRequiredDefault or hint
Text columnselectYesSelect column…
Peoplecheckbox—true
Organisationscheckbox—true
Moneycheckbox—true
Datescheckbox—true
Email addressescheckbox—false
Phone numberscheckbox—false

Example

Mine a support ticket

  • Text column=Ticket
Ticket text
Ticket
Dr. Maria Lopez from Northwind Trading Ltd says invoice of $1,240.50 dated 12 March 2026 is unpaid.
Entities found
TicketPersonsOrganizationsMoneyDates
Dr. Maria Lopez from Northwind Trading Ltd says invoice of $1,240.50 dated 12 March 2026 is unpaid.Dr. Maria LopezNorthwind Trading Ltd$1,240.5012 March 2026

Worth knowing

  • Pattern-based, not named-entity recognition: people are found after a title (Mr, Dr…) or a cue word (from, contact, Dear…); organisations end in Ltd, Inc, LLC, Bank, University…
  • Several finds in one text are joined with “; ”.
  • Money is a currency symbol or code with a number; dates are ISO, 12/03/2026 or written out (12 March 2026, March 12, 2026).

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