Entity tracking: auto-detect + detail panel
You're at chapter 10. The word "lighthouse" appears 47 times — and you need to know how it's described each time. That's what Entity tracking is for.
Open the Entity panel
Left activity bar → 📊 Writing stats → "Entity" tab.
Or ⌘⇧E.
How Slima detects entities
Two strategies:
1 · Named-entity recognition (NER)
Scans the book and finds:
- People (proper nouns appearing ≥ 3 times)
- Places (place names, location names)
- Objects / concepts (recurring concrete nouns)
2 · Combined with your notes
If a "Characters" or "Places" folder exists and filenames match nouns in the manuscript, Slima knows those are entities (not generic nouns).
Entity list
For each detected entity:
- Name
- Type chip (person / place / object)
- Occurrence count
- Last chapter mentioned
Click any → opens the Entity detail panel.
Entity detail panel
Open one (say "J. Doe") and you see:
1 · AI summary
A summary the AI generates after reading the book:
- Basics (age, occupation, appearance)
- Main relationships (from manuscript + relationship map)
- Personality traits (extracted from dialogue / actions)
- Arc across chapters
2 · Occurrence list
Every appearance — chapter and sentence:
- Click to jump
- "Show context" reveals surrounding paragraphs
3 · Cross-file search
"Search all dialogue mentioning J. Doe" / "All scenes J. Doe shares with A. Smith"
Consistency check
The Entity detail page has a "Consistency check" button — the AI reviews this character across the book for:
- Appearance contradictions ("blue eyes" vs "green eyes")
- Personality flips (afraid of the sea early, swims happily later)
- Naming mix-ups (J. Doe / old J / Doe)
Great for a final pre-submission pass.
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