# diffbot-entities

> Claude/Codex skill by [@diffbot](https://omgskills.com/library/diffbot/index.md) · 5 stars · Updated 2026-09-28

Identify and resolve named entities in text using the Diffbot NLP API. Links mentions to Diffbot Knowledge Graph entities with confidence scores and sentiment. Use when the user wants to extract entities from text, do NER (named entity recognition), identify companies or people mentioned, or get Diffbot IDs for entities. Triggers on: identify entities, entity recognition, NER, find entities in text, extract entities, entity linking, diffbot NLP, named entity.

Tags: agent-skills, ai, coding, crawler, entity-resolution, extract, extraction, knowledge, knowledge-graph, knowledge-graphs, research, skills, websearch, websearch-agent, websearch-api

## Install

```sh
git clone https://github.com/diffbot/diffbot-skills /tmp/diffbot-skills && ln -s /tmp/diffbot-skills/skills/diffbot-entities ~/.claude/skills/diffbot-entities
```

## From README

Diffbot Entities (NLP) Identify and resolve named entities in text using the Diffbot NLP API. Each entity is linked to a Diffbot Knowledge Graph record with confidence, salience, and sentiment scores. The db entities CLI Always invoke with the fixed path /.diffbot/venv/bin/db. | Flag | Default | Description | |------|---------|-------------| | -f, --format | table | Output: table (rich), json (raw API), dql (ID filter for db dql) | | --lang | auto | Language code (e.g. en, es, fr). Default auto-detects. | Text can be passed as a CLI argument or piped via stdin. Workflow Step 1 — bootstrap The token is read from DIFFBOTAPITOKEN env var or /.diffbot/credentials.

## Links

- HTML page: https://omgskills.com/library/diffbot/diffbot-skills/skills/diffbot-entities/
- GitHub: https://github.com/diffbot/diffbot-skills
- Author: [@diffbot](https://omgskills.com/library/diffbot/index.md)

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