get_entity
Fetch all stored facts and relationships about a named entity, enabling context-rich answers or data retrieval.
Instructions
Get everything known about a named thing — who or what it is, the facts about it, and how it connects to other things.
A "thing" is any subject this store holds knowledge about: a person, an organisation, a project, a place, a product, a system — whatever the store is used for. This is the "tell me about X" tool.
Call this WHENEVER a named thing is mentioned or alluded to and knowing it would improve your answer — including indirect references like "my manager", "the Helsinki office", "the payments service". Call it before advising on anything involving that thing, and before asking who or what something is — you may already know.
Facts come back most relevant first, each flagged with is_subject. True means the fact is ABOUT this thing; false means it only mentions it. Treat the difference as real when you answer: "Alex's transfer was approved by Robin" is worth knowing when asked about Robin, but it is a fact about Alex, and reporting it as something you know about Robin would be wrong. Other relationship values are the same kind of role — this entity's part in this fact, free text, not a directed graph edge. Do not infer who did what to whom from the wording.
If several entity rows share that name under different types (the extractor labelled one thing two ways), facts from all of them come back. Hyphens, underscores, and stray punctuation count as the same letters only when that does not join two names already stored as separate rows. If this store has no entity by that name, facts that mention the wording still come back (is_subject false) rather than an empty miss. found is whether an entity row exists, not whether anything is known.
Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| name | Yes | The thing's name. Resolve an indirect reference to a name first if you can (e.g. via get_context or a prior fact). | |
| type | No | Optional type filter, only for disambiguation when one name refers to two different things (a person and a project both called 'Mercury'). Types are whatever this store uses — omit it to match any type, which is almost always what you want. |