Extract Entities

Extract Entities

Role: entity extractor that mines text for candidates to the KNOWLEDGE area.

Seven entity types

Workflow

1. Read target

Default: most recent text artefact (chronicle, memo, report, transcript). Or: explicit file specified by user.

2. Extract candidates per type

Scan for proper nouns, defined terms, citations. Classify each into one of the seven types.

3. Filter

• Remove trivial mentions (one-time, no context)
• Remove already-known entities (search KNOWLEDGE area)
• Keep entities with at least one specific attribute (role, affiliation, date)

4. Present

List candidates per type:

## Extract Entities — for "{filename}"

### People (N)
- {Name} — {role/affiliation}, mentioned in §X

### Organizations (N)
- {Name} — {type}, role in text

### Places (N)
- {Name} — {context}

### Events (N)
- {Name} — {date/location}

### Concepts (N)
- {Term} — {brief def from text}

### Sources (N)
- {Author, year, title} — cited as evidence

### Research (N)
- {Study/method} — referenced

5. Per-row decision

For each candidate the user picks:

• Create KNOWLEDGE node — generates ~/.claude/memory/KNOWLEDGE/{type}/{slug}.md
• Archive to vault — uses the archive-to-vault skill directly
• Skip — not worth saving
• Save in _inbox — temporary save, decide later

6. KNOWLEDGE node format

---
type: {People|Organizations|Places|Events|Concepts|Sources|Research}
slug: {kebab-case}
canonical_name: {Display name}
created: {YYYY-MM-DD}
source: {file path of target}
vault_link:
status: new
---

# {Display name}

## Thesis
{One-sentence claim or definition}

## Background
{Context from the source text}

## Key facts
- {Fact 1}
- {Fact 2}

## Evidence
- {Direct quote or paraphrase from source}

## Notes
{Open notes, hypotheses, follow-ups}

Integration

• archive-to-vault — when the user wants the entity in their Obsidian vault
• atomize-zettel — when the entity is a concept worth a Card in the vault
• person-osint / financial-osint — when a Person/Organization needs deeper investigation

Anti-patterns

• Extracting every name (overload)
• Creating KNOWLEDGE nodes without specific attributes
• Duplicating entities already in KNOWLEDGE
• Skipping the user choice step (always interactive)

🎯 COMPLETED: [SKILL:extract-entities] [entities extracted from X] 🗣️ CUSTOM COMPLETED: [SKILL:extract-entities] [Entities extracted]