21.12.12

The Named Entity Extractor extension by Free You Metadata (from around the web)

The Free Your Metadata Named Entity Extractor extension helps you to enrich your data in OpenRefine using AlchemyAPI, DBpedia Lookup and Zemanta. The extension works on plain text field and any unstructured (meta)data


The extension recognized Named Entity like personalty name, location, date (...) in your data set and match it with the entity in selected source. For every match a new field (column) is created and linked with the authoritative source.

This new extension looks promising for anyone extracting information from plain text field. You can: