nodebench.entities.resolve
Resolve a public company, person, role, product, investor, school, or source into a stable NodeBench entity ID with aliases and confidence.
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What nodebench.entities.resolve does on Nodebench
AI agents call nodebench.entities.resolve to retrieve information from Nodebench without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
Why nodebench.entities.resolve is rated Low
This is a data retrieval and entity resolution tool. It queries an entity database to map various entity references to canonical IDs. No data is created, modified, deleted, or executed—it only returns stable identifiers and metadata. This is a classic Read operation with minimal blast radius if misused (worst case: incorrect entity mappings returned).
From the tool's definition Tool resolves entities (public companies, persons, roles, products, investors, schools, sources) into stable IDs with aliases and confidence scores.
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The rule that runs nodebench.entities.resolve safely
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Nodebench, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For nodebench.entities.resolve, this is the rule to start with:
nodebench.entities.resolve is read-only, so it stays allowed. Everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
The button opens the PolicyLayer dashboard: create your workspace, connect Nodebench, apply this rule, and every nodebench.entities.resolve call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about nodebench.entities.resolve
Resolve a public company, person, role, product, investor, school, or source into a stable NodeBench entity ID with aliases and confidence. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Nodebench MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Nodebench MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for nodebench.entities.resolve: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches Nodebench. Nothing to install.
nodebench.entities.resolve is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the nodebench.entities.resolve rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for nodebench.entities.resolve. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
nodebench.entities.resolve is provided by the Nodebench MCP server (nodebench-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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