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The get entity endpoint gives your agent comprehensive access to all the information we know about a specific entity. This endpoint:
  • Delivers structured, schema-validated data about any entity
  • Provides complete entity profiles with all available attributes
  • Ensures data consistency through proper schema validation
Once you have an entity ID (from entity_search, knowledge_search, or knowledge_query), get everything Cala knows about it:

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Example:

{"input":"1160"}

Full Entity Profile

A complete, structured profile — founders, executives, HQ, industry, employee count, and more. No parsing needed.
{
  "id": 1160,
  "name": "OpenAI",
  "entity_type": "ORG",
  "image_url": null,
  "legal_name": "OpenAI, Inc.",
  "type": "private_company",
  "industry": "Artificial intelligence (AI) industry",
  "founded_year": 2015,
  "founders": [
    "Sam Altman",
    "Elon Musk",
    "Greg Brockman",
    "Ilya Sutskever",
    "Trevor Blackwell",
    "Vicki Cheung",
    "Andrej Karpathy",
    "Durk Kingma",
    "John Schulman",
    "Pamela Vagata",
    "Wojciech Zaremba"
  ],
  "executives": [
    "Sam Altman (Chief Executive Officer)",
    "Greg Brockman (President)",
    "Jakub Pachocki (Chief Scientist)",
    "Mark Chen (Senior Vice President of Research / Chief Research Officer)",
    "Brad Lightcap (Chief Operating Officer)",
    "Sarah Friar (Chief Financial Officer)",
    "Jason Kwon (Chief Strategy Officer)",
    "Kevin Weil (Chief Product Officer)",
    "Srinivas Narayanan (Vice President of Engineering)",
    "Chris Clark (Head of Nonprofit and Strategic Initiatives)",
    "Matt Knight (Chief Information Security Officer)",
    "Anna Makanju (Vice President of Global Impact)"
  ],
  "headquarters": "San Francisco, California, United States",
  "employee_count": 4500
}
Use entity_search to look up any entity by name (for example “OpenAI”)
{
  "entities": [
    {"id": 1160, "name": "OpenAI", "entity_type": "ORG"},
    {"id": 28817, "name": "OpenAI o1", "entity_type": "PRODUCT"},
    {"id": 37060, "name": "OpenAI API", "entity_type": "PRODUCT"},
    {"id": 5779, "name": "OpenAI o3-pro", "entity_type": "PRODUCT"},
    {"id": 28820, "name": "OpenAI GPT-4o", "entity_type": "PRODUCT"},
    {"id": 18915, "name": "OpenAI GPT-5.2", "entity_type": "PRODUCT"},
    {"id": 33153, "name": "OpenAI Startup Fund", "entity_type": "ORG"},
    {"id": 28816, "name": "OpenAI Deep Research", "entity_type": "PRODUCT"},
    {"id": 1159, "name": "OpenAI's terms of service", "entity_type": "LAW"}
  ]
}
Fuzzy matching included — searching “OpenAI” also returns related products, subsidiaries, and legal entities.