# Ask a language model

Model / text

call a large language model

Page: <https://meridian.online/operations/ask-a-language-model>

## Status

Not built yet.

arcform does not do this yet. [Its place on the roadmap](https://meridian.online/roadmap#ask-a-language-model)

## Variants

- [Fine-tune a language model](https://meridian.online/operations/ask-a-language-model/fine-tune-a-language-model): Train an existing language model further on the input rows to suit a task.
- Prompt a model for each row: Send a prompt built from each row to a language model and store its reply in a new column.
- [Ask a model about a whole column](https://meridian.online/operations/ask-a-language-model/ask-a-model-about-a-whole-column): Send the values of many rows to a language model in one prompt and get one answer back.

## What other tools call it

Meridian's classification; an independent blind rating agreed on 86.2% of 312 rows (exact class, version 2).

- Alteryx Designer: [`Prompt`](https://help.alteryx.com/current/en/designer/tools/ai-tools/prompt-tool.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- Duckle: [`Classify`](https://github.com/slothflowlabs/duckle/blob/f85f8960edfb6efbf4cb89d58a7b32e16df0e867/website/docs/components.html) (read 2026-09-25)
- Duckle: [`LLM Transform`](https://github.com/slothflowlabs/duckle/blob/f85f8960edfb6efbf4cb89d58a7b32e16df0e867/website/docs/components.html) (read 2026-09-25)
- EasyMorph: [`Ask AI`](https://help.easymorph.com/doku.php?id=transformations:chatgpt) (read 2026-09-27)
- Apache Hop: [`Language model chat`](https://hop.apache.org/manual/latest/pipeline/transforms/languagemodelchat.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- Apache Hop: [`Structured extract`](https://hop.apache.org/manual/next/pipeline/transforms/structuredextract.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- KNIME Analytics Platform: [`KNIME AI Extension (extension)`](https://api.hub.knime.com/extensions/org.knime.python.features.llm) (read 2026-09-27)
- Power Query M: [`FabricAI.Prompt`](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powerquery-m/accessing-data-functions) (read 2026-09-27)
- RapidMiner Studio: [`Conversational`](https://docs.rapidminer.com/latest/studio/operators/extensions/Generative%20Models/Models/Huggingface/Tasks/conversational.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- RapidMiner Studio: [`Conversational (History)`](https://docs.rapidminer.com/latest/studio/operators/extensions/Generative%20Models/Models/Huggingface/Tasks/conversational_history.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- RapidMiner Studio: [`Fill Mask`](https://docs.rapidminer.com/latest/studio/operators/extensions/Generative%20Models/Models/Huggingface/Tasks/fill_mask.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- RapidMiner Studio: [`Finetune (OpenAI)`](https://docs.rapidminer.com/latest/studio/operators/extensions/Generative%20Models/Models/OpenAI/finetune_openai.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- RapidMiner Studio: [`Finetune Text Classification`](https://docs.rapidminer.com/latest/studio/operators/extensions/Generative%20Models/Models/Huggingface/Finetune/finetune_text_classification.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- RapidMiner Studio: [`Finetune Text Generation`](https://docs.rapidminer.com/latest/studio/operators/extensions/Generative%20Models/Models/Huggingface/Finetune/finetune_text_generation.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- RapidMiner Studio: [`Finetune Text2Text Generation`](https://docs.rapidminer.com/latest/studio/operators/extensions/Generative%20Models/Models/Huggingface/Finetune/finetune_text2text_generation.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- RapidMiner Studio: [`Finetune Translation`](https://docs.rapidminer.com/latest/studio/operators/extensions/Generative%20Models/Models/Huggingface/Finetune/finetune_translation.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- RapidMiner Studio: [`Generate Image (LLM)`](https://docs.rapidminer.com/latest/studio/operators/extensions/Generative%20AI/generate_image_language_model.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- RapidMiner Studio: [`Generate Text (LLM)`](https://docs.rapidminer.com/latest/studio/operators/extensions/Generative%20AI/generate_text_language_model.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- RapidMiner Studio: [`Question Answering`](https://docs.rapidminer.com/latest/studio/operators/extensions/Generative%20Models/Models/Huggingface/Tasks/question_answering.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- RapidMiner Studio: [`Send Conversation (OpenAI)`](https://docs.rapidminer.com/latest/studio/operators/extensions/Generative%20Models/Models/OpenAI/send_conversation_openai.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- RapidMiner Studio: [`Send Prompt (OpenAI)`](https://docs.rapidminer.com/latest/studio/operators/extensions/Generative%20Models/Models/OpenAI/send_prompt_openai.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- RapidMiner Studio: [`Summarization`](https://docs.rapidminer.com/latest/studio/operators/extensions/Generative%20Models/Models/Huggingface/Tasks/summarization.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- RapidMiner Studio: [`Text Generation`](https://docs.rapidminer.com/latest/studio/operators/extensions/Generative%20Models/Models/Huggingface/Tasks/text_generation.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- RapidMiner Studio: [`Text2Text Generation`](https://docs.rapidminer.com/latest/studio/operators/extensions/Generative%20Models/Models/Huggingface/Tasks/text2text_generation.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- RapidMiner Studio: [`Translation`](https://docs.rapidminer.com/latest/studio/operators/extensions/Generative%20Models/Models/Huggingface/Tasks/translation.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- Apache SeaTunnel: [`LLM`](https://seatunnel.apache.org/docs/2.3.13/transforms/llm) (read 2026-09-27)
- Talend: [`tBedrockClient`](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/components/8.0/ai/ai-component) (read 2026-09-27)
- Talend: [`tClaudeAIClient`](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/components/8.0/ai/ai-component) (read 2026-09-27)
- Talend: [`tGeminiClient`](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/components/8.0/ai/ai-component) (read 2026-09-27)
- Talend: [`tOllamaClient`](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/components/8.0/ai/ai-component) (read 2026-09-27)
- Talend: [`tOpenAIClient`](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/components/8.0/ai/ai-component) (read 2026-09-27)
- VisiData: [`llm-analyze-column`](https://github.com/saulpw/visidata/blob/7609212ec2febafa9caba7183cbebfaf49627909/visidata/experimental/llm.py#L199) (read 2026-09-23)
- VisiData: [`llm-analyze-selected`](https://github.com/saulpw/visidata/blob/7609212ec2febafa9caba7183cbebfaf49627909/visidata/experimental/llm.py#L203) (read 2026-09-23)