Tavily Entity

Resolve one entity and return a CRM record. The name is not the identity. Confirm which entity it is, then fill the record from authoritative sources. Every value comes from a page you read. An empty field stays empty.

Search and extract as tavily-search describes; load it only if it isn’t loaded yet. To discover new matches use tavily-list; for a deep report use tavily-research.

Identify the entity first

People and companies share names. A record that mixes two of them is worse than an empty one. Isolate a single entity before you fill any field.

1. Take the type (company, person, or organization) and every identifier the user already gave: a domain, a city, an employer, a title, a product.
2. Search the name and look for other entities that use it. A common name, a name that is also a product or a place, or a person with a common name is a collision until you prove otherwise.
3. You have the right entity only when two identifiers agree. For a company, the name plus its own domain. For a person, the name plus an employer, a location, or a profile they control, and the organization on that profile has to match. One page that mentions the name is not identification.
4. If more than one entity still fits, stop and return the candidates. Do not pick the one with more results, and do not copy a field from one candidate onto another.
5. Put a stable identifier, the domain or the employer, into every later search, not the bare name.

Read authoritative sources

Fill a field from the page that owns the fact. Extract that page. A snippet is not enough for a number.

• The entity’s own site, an official profile, and a filing or registry come first for facts the entity publishes: what it is, where it is, who leads it, what it sells. For a person, the employer’s team page or a profile the person controls comes before a people-search site.
• A directory, a data broker, or a roundup is a lead to that page. Use it as the source of a field only when no authoritative page states the fact, and say so in the source note.
• When two authoritative pages disagree on a number, keep the more direct one and record the other in the source note. Do not average them.
• Include a published email or phone number only when a page shows it.

Extract the pages that own the fields you need in one call. Search for recent news, with the domain or employer in the query, only when the user wants recent signals or a full record.

A CSV of known rows

When the user already has the entities, in a file or a pasted table, enrich those rows. Do not go looking for new names.

1. Read the rows and count them. Use the fields they named. If they did not name fields, ask once, then use the same fields on every row.
2. Above 25 rows, tell them the count and the fields and wait for a go-ahead.
3. For each row, follow Identify the entity first and Read authoritative sources. A row you cannot isolate stays unresolved: blank new fields, a note on what collided, and no guessed values.
4. Write the original columns plus the new fields, a source for each new field, and a status of filled or unresolved to {name}-enriched-{YYYY-MM-DD}.csv. Use a CSV writer.

The CSV is the result. In the reply, give the number filled, the number unresolved, and the path. Do not paste a record per row.

Output

When the user asked specific questions, answer those in the reply, with a source for each value, and skip the template. For a full record, use this:

# {Name}

type: company | person | organization
identified by: {domain, employer, or other stable identifier}
as_of: {YYYY-MM-DD}

| Field | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| website | | |
| description | | |
| industry | | |
| headquarters | | |
| founded | | |
| employees | | |
| funding | | |
| revenue | | |
| linkedin | | |

## People
| Name | Title | Source |
|---|---|---|

## Recent signals
- {YYYY-MM-DD}: {fact} — {url}

## Unknown
- {field}: {what you tried}

For a person, the field rows are title, organization, location, and profile URL, and People appears only when the user asked for related people. Drop a field row that does not apply to this type. A field that applies and could not be filled stays in the table with a blank value and a line under Unknown. Description is one or two sentences grounded in the about page or profile. Recent signals are at most five dated items: funding, a launch, a leadership change, hiring. Omit a section that has no rows.

When you cannot pick one entity:

# {Query}

| Name | Website | What separates it from the others |
|---|---|---|