diff --git a/cognee/shared/utils.py b/cognee/shared/utils.py
index 749cfef66..612a9399f 100644
--- a/cognee/shared/utils.py
+++ b/cognee/shared/utils.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ import networkx as nx
 import pandas as pd
 import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
 import tiktoken
-
+import nltk
 import base64
 import time
 
@@ -30,6 +30,34 @@ from cognee.shared.exceptions import IngestionError
 proxy_url = "https://test.prometh.ai"
 
 
+
+def get_entities(tagged_tokens):
+    nltk.download("maxent_ne_chunker", quiet=True)
+    from nltk.chunk import ne_chunk
+
+    return ne_chunk(tagged_tokens)
+
+
+def extract_pos_tags(sentence):
+    """Extract Part-of-Speech (POS) tags for words in a sentence."""
+
+    # Ensure that the necessary NLTK resources are downloaded
+    nltk.download("words", quiet=True)
+    nltk.download("punkt", quiet=True)
+    nltk.download("averaged_perceptron_tagger", quiet=True)
+
+    from nltk.tag import pos_tag
+    from nltk.tokenize import word_tokenize
+
+    # Tokenize the sentence into words
+    tokens = word_tokenize(sentence)
+
+    # Tag each word with its corresponding POS tag
+    pos_tags = pos_tag(tokens)
+
+    return pos_tags
+
+
 def get_anonymous_id():
     """Creates or reads a anonymous user id"""
     home_dir = str(pathlib.Path(pathlib.Path(__file__).parent.parent.parent.resolve()))