# How to extract the name of detected entity value through Actions?

**URL:** <https://forum.rasa.com/t/how-to-extract-the-name-of-detected-entity-value-through-actions/3165>\
**Category:** Rasa Open Source\
**Created:** [November 30, 2018, 6:24am UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/how-to-extract-the-name-of-detected-entity-value-through-actions/3165 "2018-11-30T06:24:52Z")\
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One way to extract the entity type of the latest user input is by parsing the `latest_message` variable of the `DialogueStateTracker` class which contains the entire dump of the prediction from the NLU model

```auto
prediction = tracker.latest_message
entity_type = prediction['entities'][0]['entity']

```

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