diff --git a/src/core/identity-db.ts b/src/core/identity-db.ts
index 560ee54..cb2828a 100644
--- a/src/core/identity-db.ts
+++ b/src/core/identity-db.ts
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import {
   type UpsertTopicInput,
   type AddFactInput,
 } from '../types/api';
+import type { IngestStatementOptions } from '../ingestion/types';
 import type { DatabaseConnection, IdentityDBConnectionConfig } from '../adapters/dialect';
 import type { IdentityDatabaseSchema } from '../types/database';
 import type { FactRecord, TopicRecord } from '../types/domain';
@@ -24,6 +25,7 @@ import {
   nowIsoString,
   serializeMetadata,
 } from './utils';
+import { extractFact } from '../ingestion/extractor';
 import {
   findFactRowsConnectingTopicIds,
   findFactRowsForTopicId,
@@ -85,7 +87,8 @@ export class IdentityDB {
 
       const topics: FactTopic[] = [];
 
-      for (const [index, topicInput] of input.topics.entries()) {
+      for (let index = 0; index < input.topics.length; index += 1) {
+        const topicInput = input.topics[index]!;
         const topic = await this.upsertTopicInExecutor(trx, topicInput);
 
         await trx
@@ -120,6 +123,35 @@ export class IdentityDB {
     });
   }
 
+  async ingestStatement(
+    statement: string,
+    options: IngestStatementOptions,
+  ): Promise<Fact> {
+    const extracted = await extractFact(statement, options.extractor);
+    const factInput: AddFactInput = {
+      statement: extracted.statement ?? statement,
+      topics: extracted.topics,
+    };
+
+    if (extracted.summary !== undefined) {
+      factInput.summary = extracted.summary;
+    }
+
+    if (extracted.source !== undefined) {
+      factInput.source = extracted.source;
+    }
+
+    if (extracted.confidence !== undefined) {
+      factInput.confidence = extracted.confidence;
+    }
+
+    if (extracted.metadata !== undefined) {
+      factInput.metadata = extracted.metadata;
+    }
+
+    return this.addFact(factInput);
+  }
+
   async getTopicFacts(name: string): Promise<Fact[]> {
     const topicRow = await this.getRequiredTopicRow(name);
 
diff --git a/src/index.ts b/src/index.ts
index 86f9b1b..26dbb5e 100644
--- a/src/index.ts
+++ b/src/index.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 export * from './adapters';
 export * from './core/identity-db';
 export * from './core/migrations';
+export * from './ingestion/extractor';
+export * from './ingestion/naive-extractor';
+export * from './ingestion/types';
 export * from './types/api';
 export * from './types/database';
 export * from './types/domain';
diff --git a/src/ingestion/extractor.ts b/src/ingestion/extractor.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9990bd6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/ingestion/extractor.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+import { IdentityDBError } from '../core/errors';
+import { normalizeTopicName } from '../core/utils';
+import type { FactExtractor, ExtractedFact } from './types';
+
+export async function extractFact(
+  input: string,
+  extractor: FactExtractor,
+): Promise<ExtractedFact> {
+  const extracted = await extractor.extract(input);
+  const statement = extracted.statement?.trim() || input.trim();
+
+  if (statement.length === 0) {
+    throw new IdentityDBError('Extractor returned an empty statement.');
+  }
+
+  const dedupedTopics = new Map<string, ExtractedFact['topics'][number]>();
+
+  for (const topic of extracted.topics) {
+    const normalizedName = normalizeTopicName(topic.name);
+
+    if (normalizedName.length === 0) {
+      continue;
+    }
+
+    if (!dedupedTopics.has(normalizedName)) {
+      dedupedTopics.set(normalizedName, topic);
+    }
+  }
+
+  if (dedupedTopics.size === 0) {
+    throw new IdentityDBError('Extractor returned no usable topics.');
+  }
+
+    return {
+      statement,
+      summary: extracted.summary ?? null,
+      source: extracted.source ?? null,
+      confidence: extracted.confidence ?? null,
+      metadata: extracted.metadata ?? null,
+      topics: Array.from(dedupedTopics.values()),
+    };
+}
diff --git a/src/ingestion/naive-extractor.ts b/src/ingestion/naive-extractor.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..15236c7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/ingestion/naive-extractor.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+import type { ExtractedFact, FactExtractor } from './types';
+
+export class NaiveExtractor implements FactExtractor {
+  async extract(input: string): Promise<ExtractedFact> {
+    const topics: ExtractedFact['topics'] = [];
+    const seen = new Set<string>();
+    const tokens = input.match(/\bI\b|\b\d{4}\b|\b[A-Z][A-Za-z0-9+#.-]*\b/g) ?? [];
+
+    for (const token of tokens) {
+      const normalized = token.trim().toLowerCase();
+      if (seen.has(normalized)) {
+        continue;
+      }
+      seen.add(normalized);
+
+      if (/^\d{4}$/.test(token)) {
+        topics.push({
+          name: token,
+          category: 'temporal',
+          granularity: 'concrete',
+          role: 'time',
+        });
+        continue;
+      }
+
+      topics.push({
+        name: token,
+        category: 'entity',
+        granularity: 'concrete',
+        role: token === 'I' ? 'subject' : 'object',
+      });
+    }
+
+    return {
+      statement: input.trim(),
+      topics,
+    };
+  }
+}
diff --git a/src/ingestion/types.ts b/src/ingestion/types.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d1add29
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/ingestion/types.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+import type { AddFactInput, TopicLinkInput } from '../types/api';
+
+export interface ExtractedFact {
+  statement?: string;
+  summary?: string | null;
+  source?: string | null;
+  confidence?: number | null;
+  metadata?: AddFactInput['metadata'];
+  topics: TopicLinkInput[];
+}
+
+export interface FactExtractor {
+  extract(input: string): Promise<ExtractedFact>;
+}
+
+export interface IngestStatementOptions {
+  extractor: FactExtractor;
+}