diff --git a/.semversioner/next-release/patch-20241212190223784600.json b/.semversioner/next-release/patch-20241212190223784600.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d54d621cf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.semversioner/next-release/patch-20241212190223784600.json
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+{
+  "type": "patch",
+  "description": "Streamline flows."
+}
diff --git a/graphrag/index/flows/compute_communities.py b/graphrag/index/flows/compute_communities.py
index 09ec084ac..6ca74ded4 100644
--- a/graphrag/index/flows/compute_communities.py
+++ b/graphrag/index/flows/compute_communities.py
@@ -9,15 +9,11 @@
 
 from graphrag.index.operations.cluster_graph import cluster_graph
 from graphrag.index.operations.create_graph import create_graph
-from graphrag.index.operations.snapshot import snapshot
-from graphrag.storage.pipeline_storage import PipelineStorage
 
 
-async def compute_communities(
+def compute_communities(
     base_relationship_edges: pd.DataFrame,
-    storage: PipelineStorage,
     clustering_strategy: dict[str, Any],
-    snapshot_transient_enabled: bool = False,
 ) -> pd.DataFrame:
     """All the steps to create the base entity graph."""
     graph = create_graph(base_relationship_edges)
@@ -32,12 +28,4 @@ async def compute_communities(
     ).explode("title")
     base_communities["community"] = base_communities["community"].astype(int)
 
-    if snapshot_transient_enabled:
-        await snapshot(
-            base_communities,
-            name="base_communities",
-            storage=storage,
-            formats=["parquet"],
-        )
-
     return base_communities
diff --git a/graphrag/index/flows/create_base_text_units.py b/graphrag/index/flows/create_base_text_units.py
index f699d507b..3204425d1 100644
--- a/graphrag/index/flows/create_base_text_units.py
+++ b/graphrag/index/flows/create_base_text_units.py
@@ -15,18 +15,14 @@
 )
 
 from graphrag.index.operations.chunk_text import chunk_text
-from graphrag.index.operations.snapshot import snapshot
 from graphrag.index.utils.hashing import gen_sha512_hash
-from graphrag.storage.pipeline_storage import PipelineStorage
 
 
-async def create_base_text_units(
+def create_base_text_units(
     documents: pd.DataFrame,
     callbacks: VerbCallbacks,
-    storage: PipelineStorage,
     chunk_by_columns: list[str],
     chunk_strategy: dict[str, Any] | None = None,
-    snapshot_transient_enabled: bool = False,
 ) -> pd.DataFrame:
     """All the steps to transform base text_units."""
     sort = documents.sort_values(by=["id"], ascending=[True])
@@ -74,19 +70,7 @@ async def create_base_text_units(
     # rename for downstream consumption
     chunked.rename(columns={"chunk": "text"}, inplace=True)
 
-    output = cast(
-        "pd.DataFrame", chunked[chunked["text"].notna()].reset_index(drop=True)
-    )
-
-    if snapshot_transient_enabled:
-        await snapshot(
-            output,
-            name="create_base_text_units",
-            storage=storage,
-            formats=["parquet"],
-        )
-
-    return output
+    return cast("pd.DataFrame", chunked[chunked["text"].notna()].reset_index(drop=True))
 
 
 # TODO: would be nice to inline this completely in the main method with pandas
diff --git a/graphrag/index/flows/create_final_nodes.py b/graphrag/index/flows/create_final_nodes.py
index a468e830a..0b6932e40 100644
--- a/graphrag/index/flows/create_final_nodes.py
+++ b/graphrag/index/flows/create_final_nodes.py
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
     VerbCallbacks,
 )
 
+from graphrag.index.operations.compute_degree import compute_degree
 from graphrag.index.operations.create_graph import create_graph
 from graphrag.index.operations.embed_graph.embed_graph import embed_graph
 from graphrag.index.operations.layout_graph.layout_graph import layout_graph
@@ -37,15 +38,19 @@ def create_final_nodes(
         layout_strategy,
         embeddings=graph_embeddings,
     )
-    nodes = base_entity_nodes.merge(
-        layout, left_on="title", right_on="label", how="left"
-    )
 
-    joined = nodes.merge(base_communities, on="title", how="left")
-    joined["level"] = joined["level"].fillna(0).astype(int)
-    joined["community"] = joined["community"].fillna(-1).astype(int)
+    degrees = compute_degree(graph)
 
-    return joined.loc[
+    nodes = (
+        base_entity_nodes.merge(layout, left_on="title", right_on="label", how="left")
+        .merge(degrees, on="title", how="left")
+        .merge(base_communities, on="title", how="left")
+    )
+    nodes["level"] = nodes["level"].fillna(0).astype(int)
+    nodes["community"] = nodes["community"].fillna(-1).astype(int)
+    # disconnected nodes and those with no community even at level 0 can be missing degree
+    nodes["degree"] = nodes["degree"].fillna(0).astype(int)
+    return nodes.loc[
         :,
         [
             "id",
diff --git a/graphrag/index/flows/create_final_relationships.py b/graphrag/index/flows/create_final_relationships.py
index 5f58d1ffb..03f6e362e 100644
--- a/graphrag/index/flows/create_final_relationships.py
+++ b/graphrag/index/flows/create_final_relationships.py
@@ -5,20 +5,25 @@
 
 import pandas as pd
 
+from graphrag.index.operations.compute_degree import compute_degree
 from graphrag.index.operations.compute_edge_combined_degree import (
     compute_edge_combined_degree,
 )
+from graphrag.index.operations.create_graph import create_graph
 
 
 def create_final_relationships(
     base_relationship_edges: pd.DataFrame,
-    base_entity_nodes: pd.DataFrame,
 ) -> pd.DataFrame:
     """All the steps to transform final relationships."""
     relationships = base_relationship_edges
+
+    graph = create_graph(base_relationship_edges)
+    degrees = compute_degree(graph)
+
     relationships["combined_degree"] = compute_edge_combined_degree(
         relationships,
-        base_entity_nodes,
+        degrees,
         node_name_column="title",
         node_degree_column="degree",
         edge_source_column="source",
diff --git a/graphrag/index/flows/extract_graph.py b/graphrag/index/flows/extract_graph.py
index db73635b8..87e369f52 100644
--- a/graphrag/index/flows/extract_graph.py
+++ b/graphrag/index/flows/extract_graph.py
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
 from typing import Any
 from uuid import uuid4
 
-import networkx as nx
 import pandas as pd
 from datashaper import (
     AsyncType,
@@ -14,33 +13,26 @@
 )
 
 from graphrag.cache.pipeline_cache import PipelineCache
-from graphrag.index.operations.create_graph import create_graph
 from graphrag.index.operations.extract_entities import extract_entities
-from graphrag.index.operations.snapshot import snapshot
-from graphrag.index.operations.snapshot_graphml import snapshot_graphml
 from graphrag.index.operations.summarize_descriptions import (
     summarize_descriptions,
 )
-from graphrag.storage.pipeline_storage import PipelineStorage
 
 
 async def extract_graph(
     text_units: pd.DataFrame,
     callbacks: VerbCallbacks,
     cache: PipelineCache,
-    storage: PipelineStorage,
     extraction_strategy: dict[str, Any] | None = None,
     extraction_num_threads: int = 4,
     extraction_async_mode: AsyncType = AsyncType.AsyncIO,
     entity_types: list[str] | None = None,
     summarization_strategy: dict[str, Any] | None = None,
     summarization_num_threads: int = 4,
-    snapshot_graphml_enabled: bool = False,
-    snapshot_transient_enabled: bool = False,
 ) -> tuple[pd.DataFrame, pd.DataFrame]:
     """All the steps to create the base entity graph."""
     # this returns a graph for each text unit, to be merged later
-    entity_dfs, relationship_dfs = await extract_entities(
+    entities, relationships = await extract_entities(
         text_units,
         callbacks,
         cache,
@@ -52,87 +44,38 @@ async def extract_graph(
         num_threads=extraction_num_threads,
     )
 
-    if not _validate_data(entity_dfs):
+    if not _validate_data(entities):
         error_msg = "Entity Extraction failed. No entities detected during extraction."
         callbacks.error(error_msg)
         raise ValueError(error_msg)
 
-    if not _validate_data(relationship_dfs):
+    if not _validate_data(relationships):
         error_msg = (
             "Entity Extraction failed. No relationships detected during extraction."
         )
         callbacks.error(error_msg)
         raise ValueError(error_msg)
 
-    merged_entities = _merge_entities(entity_dfs)
-    merged_relationships = _merge_relationships(relationship_dfs)
-
     entity_summaries, relationship_summaries = await summarize_descriptions(
-        merged_entities,
-        merged_relationships,
+        entities,
+        relationships,
         callbacks,
         cache,
         strategy=summarization_strategy,
         num_threads=summarization_num_threads,
     )
 
-    base_relationship_edges = _prep_edges(merged_relationships, relationship_summaries)
-
-    graph = create_graph(base_relationship_edges)
-
-    base_entity_nodes = _prep_nodes(merged_entities, entity_summaries, graph)
-
-    if snapshot_graphml_enabled:
-        # todo: extract graphs at each level, and add in meta like descriptions
-        await snapshot_graphml(
-            graph,
-            name="graph",
-            storage=storage,
-        )
+    base_relationship_edges = _prep_edges(relationships, relationship_summaries)
 
-    if snapshot_transient_enabled:
-        await snapshot(
-            base_entity_nodes,
-            name="base_entity_nodes",
-            storage=storage,
-            formats=["parquet"],
-        )
-        await snapshot(
-            base_relationship_edges,
-            name="base_relationship_edges",
-            storage=storage,
-            formats=["parquet"],
-        )
+    base_entity_nodes = _prep_nodes(entities, entity_summaries)
 
     return (base_entity_nodes, base_relationship_edges)
 
 
-def _merge_entities(entity_dfs) -> pd.DataFrame:
-    all_entities = pd.concat(entity_dfs, ignore_index=True)
-    return (
-        all_entities.groupby(["name", "type"], sort=False)
-        .agg({"description": list, "source_id": list})
-        .reset_index()
-    )
-
-
-def _merge_relationships(relationship_dfs) -> pd.DataFrame:
-    all_relationships = pd.concat(relationship_dfs, ignore_index=False)
-    return (
-        all_relationships.groupby(["source", "target"], sort=False)
-        .agg({"description": list, "source_id": list, "weight": "sum"})
-        .reset_index()
-    )
-
-
-def _prep_nodes(entities, summaries, graph) -> pd.DataFrame:
-    degrees_df = _compute_degree(graph)
+def _prep_nodes(entities, summaries) -> pd.DataFrame:
     entities.drop(columns=["description"], inplace=True)
-    nodes = (
-        entities.merge(summaries, on="name", how="left")
-        .merge(degrees_df, on="name")
-        .drop_duplicates(subset="name")
-        .rename(columns={"name": "title", "source_id": "text_unit_ids"})
+    nodes = entities.merge(summaries, on="title", how="left").drop_duplicates(
+        subset="title"
     )
     nodes = nodes.loc[nodes["title"].notna()].reset_index()
     nodes["human_readable_id"] = nodes.index
@@ -145,22 +88,12 @@ def _prep_edges(relationships, summaries) -> pd.DataFrame:
         relationships.drop(columns=["description"])
         .drop_duplicates(subset=["source", "target"])
         .merge(summaries, on=["source", "target"], how="left")
-        .rename(columns={"source_id": "text_unit_ids"})
     )
     edges["human_readable_id"] = edges.index
     edges["id"] = edges["human_readable_id"].apply(lambda _x: str(uuid4()))
     return edges
 
 
-def _compute_degree(graph: nx.Graph) -> pd.DataFrame:
-    return pd.DataFrame([
-        {"name": node, "degree": int(degree)}
-        for node, degree in graph.degree  # type: ignore
-    ])
-
-
-def _validate_data(df_list: list[pd.DataFrame]) -> bool:
-    """Validate that the dataframe list is valid. At least one dataframe must contain data."""
-    return any(
-        len(df) > 0 for df in df_list
-    )  # Check for len, not .empty, as the dfs have schemas in some cases
+def _validate_data(df: pd.DataFrame) -> bool:
+    """Validate that the dataframe has data."""
+    return len(df) > 0
diff --git a/graphrag/index/flows/generate_text_embeddings.py b/graphrag/index/flows/generate_text_embeddings.py
index f701c464f..877966dab 100644
--- a/graphrag/index/flows/generate_text_embeddings.py
+++ b/graphrag/index/flows/generate_text_embeddings.py
@@ -129,9 +129,8 @@ async def _run_and_snapshot_embeddings(
             strategy=text_embed_config["strategy"],
         )
 
-        data = data.loc[:, ["id", "embedding"]]
-
         if snapshot_embeddings_enabled is True:
+            data = data.loc[:, ["id", "embedding"]]
             await snapshot(
                 data,
                 name=f"embeddings.{name}",
diff --git a/graphrag/index/operations/compute_degree.py b/graphrag/index/operations/compute_degree.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b720bf6de
--- /dev/null
+++ b/graphrag/index/operations/compute_degree.py
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2024 Microsoft Corporation.
+# Licensed under the MIT License
+
+"""A module containing create_graph definition."""
+
+import networkx as nx
+import pandas as pd
+
+
+def compute_degree(graph: nx.Graph) -> pd.DataFrame:
+    """Create a new DataFrame with the degree of each node in the graph."""
+    return pd.DataFrame([
+        {"title": node, "degree": int(degree)}
+        for node, degree in graph.degree  # type: ignore
+    ])
diff --git a/graphrag/index/operations/extract_entities/extract_entities.py b/graphrag/index/operations/extract_entities/extract_entities.py
index 89598822f..3245c2481 100644
--- a/graphrag/index/operations/extract_entities/extract_entities.py
+++ b/graphrag/index/operations/extract_entities/extract_entities.py
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ async def extract_entities(
     async_mode: AsyncType = AsyncType.AsyncIO,
     entity_types=DEFAULT_ENTITY_TYPES,
     num_threads: int = 4,
-) -> tuple[list[pd.DataFrame], list[pd.DataFrame]]:
+) -> tuple[pd.DataFrame, pd.DataFrame]:
     """
     Extract entities from a piece of text.
 
@@ -138,7 +138,10 @@ async def run_strategy(row):
             entity_dfs.append(pd.DataFrame(result[0]))
             relationship_dfs.append(pd.DataFrame(result[1]))
 
-    return (entity_dfs, relationship_dfs)
+    entities = _merge_entities(entity_dfs)
+    relationships = _merge_relationships(relationship_dfs)
+
+    return (entities, relationships)
 
 
 def _load_strategy(strategy_type: ExtractEntityStrategyType) -> EntityExtractStrategy:
@@ -162,3 +165,25 @@ def _load_strategy(strategy_type: ExtractEntityStrategyType) -> EntityExtractStr
         case _:
             msg = f"Unknown strategy: {strategy_type}"
             raise ValueError(msg)
+
+
+def _merge_entities(entity_dfs) -> pd.DataFrame:
+    all_entities = pd.concat(entity_dfs, ignore_index=True)
+    return (
+        all_entities.groupby(["title", "type"], sort=False)
+        .agg(description=("description", list), text_unit_ids=("source_id", list))
+        .reset_index()
+    )
+
+
+def _merge_relationships(relationship_dfs) -> pd.DataFrame:
+    all_relationships = pd.concat(relationship_dfs, ignore_index=False)
+    return (
+        all_relationships.groupby(["source", "target"], sort=False)
+        .agg(
+            description=("description", list),
+            text_unit_ids=("source_id", list),
+            weight=("weight", "sum"),
+        )
+        .reset_index()
+    )
diff --git a/graphrag/index/operations/extract_entities/graph_intelligence_strategy.py b/graphrag/index/operations/extract_entities/graph_intelligence_strategy.py
index fa30d6c0c..a91e0748d 100644
--- a/graphrag/index/operations/extract_entities/graph_intelligence_strategy.py
+++ b/graphrag/index/operations/extract_entities/graph_intelligence_strategy.py
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ async def run_extract_entities(
             )
 
     entities = [
-        ({"name": item[0], **(item[1] or {})})
+        ({"title": item[0], **(item[1] or {})})
         for item in graph.nodes(data=True)
         if item is not None
     ]
diff --git a/graphrag/index/operations/extract_entities/nltk_strategy.py b/graphrag/index/operations/extract_entities/nltk_strategy.py
index 13bc6742f..81103c695 100644
--- a/graphrag/index/operations/extract_entities/nltk_strategy.py
+++ b/graphrag/index/operations/extract_entities/nltk_strategy.py
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ async def run(  # noqa RUF029 async is required for interface
 
     return EntityExtractionResult(
         entities=[
-            {"type": entity_type, "name": name}
+            {"type": entity_type, "title": name}
             for name, entity_type in entity_map.items()
         ],
         relationships=[],
diff --git a/graphrag/index/operations/summarize_descriptions/summarize_descriptions.py b/graphrag/index/operations/summarize_descriptions/summarize_descriptions.py
index bfe93f441..cf6650dd0 100644
--- a/graphrag/index/operations/summarize_descriptions/summarize_descriptions.py
+++ b/graphrag/index/operations/summarize_descriptions/summarize_descriptions.py
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ async def get_summarized(
 
         node_futures = [
             do_summarize_descriptions(
-                str(row[1]["name"]),
+                str(row[1]["title"]),
                 sorted(set(row[1]["description"])),
                 ticker,
                 semaphore,
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ async def get_summarized(
 
         node_descriptions = [
             {
-                "name": result.id,
+                "title": result.id,
                 "description": result.description,
             }
             for result in node_results
diff --git a/graphrag/index/workflows/v1/compute_communities.py b/graphrag/index/workflows/v1/compute_communities.py
index 46a739d39..543a6ece6 100644
--- a/graphrag/index/workflows/v1/compute_communities.py
+++ b/graphrag/index/workflows/v1/compute_communities.py
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 
 from graphrag.index.config.workflow import PipelineWorkflowConfig, PipelineWorkflowStep
 from graphrag.index.flows.compute_communities import compute_communities
+from graphrag.index.operations.snapshot import snapshot
 from graphrag.storage.pipeline_storage import PipelineStorage
 
 workflow_name = "compute_communities"
@@ -62,13 +63,19 @@ async def workflow(
     """All the steps to create the base entity graph."""
     base_relationship_edges = await runtime_storage.get("base_relationship_edges")
 
-    base_communities = await compute_communities(
+    base_communities = compute_communities(
         base_relationship_edges,
-        storage,
         clustering_strategy=clustering_strategy,
-        snapshot_transient_enabled=snapshot_transient_enabled,
     )
 
     await runtime_storage.set("base_communities", base_communities)
 
+    if snapshot_transient_enabled:
+        await snapshot(
+            base_communities,
+            name="base_communities",
+            storage=storage,
+            formats=["parquet"],
+        )
+
     return create_verb_result(cast("Table", pd.DataFrame()))
diff --git a/graphrag/index/workflows/v1/create_base_text_units.py b/graphrag/index/workflows/v1/create_base_text_units.py
index 37e849b8e..d045f0d6e 100644
--- a/graphrag/index/workflows/v1/create_base_text_units.py
+++ b/graphrag/index/workflows/v1/create_base_text_units.py
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 from graphrag.index.flows.create_base_text_units import (
     create_base_text_units,
 )
+from graphrag.index.operations.snapshot import snapshot
 from graphrag.storage.pipeline_storage import PipelineStorage
 
 workflow_name = "create_base_text_units"
@@ -65,17 +66,23 @@ async def workflow(
     """All the steps to transform base text_units."""
     source = cast("pd.DataFrame", input.get_input())
 
-    output = await create_base_text_units(
+    output = create_base_text_units(
         source,
         callbacks,
-        storage,
         chunk_by_columns,
         chunk_strategy=chunk_strategy,
-        snapshot_transient_enabled=snapshot_transient_enabled,
     )
 
     await runtime_storage.set("base_text_units", output)
 
+    if snapshot_transient_enabled:
+        await snapshot(
+            output,
+            name="create_base_text_units",
+            storage=storage,
+            formats=["parquet"],
+        )
+
     return create_verb_result(
         cast(
             "Table",
diff --git a/graphrag/index/workflows/v1/create_final_relationships.py b/graphrag/index/workflows/v1/create_final_relationships.py
index a278607e1..603b03f75 100644
--- a/graphrag/index/workflows/v1/create_final_relationships.py
+++ b/graphrag/index/workflows/v1/create_final_relationships.py
@@ -53,8 +53,7 @@ async def workflow(
 ) -> VerbResult:
     """All the steps to transform final relationships."""
     base_relationship_edges = await runtime_storage.get("base_relationship_edges")
-    base_entity_nodes = await runtime_storage.get("base_entity_nodes")
 
-    output = create_final_relationships(base_relationship_edges, base_entity_nodes)
+    output = create_final_relationships(base_relationship_edges)
 
     return create_verb_result(cast("Table", output))
diff --git a/graphrag/index/workflows/v1/extract_graph.py b/graphrag/index/workflows/v1/extract_graph.py
index 86af232cf..65016d6a6 100644
--- a/graphrag/index/workflows/v1/extract_graph.py
+++ b/graphrag/index/workflows/v1/extract_graph.py
@@ -19,6 +19,9 @@
 from graphrag.index.flows.extract_graph import (
     extract_graph,
 )
+from graphrag.index.operations.create_graph import create_graph
+from graphrag.index.operations.snapshot import snapshot
+from graphrag.index.operations.snapshot_graphml import snapshot_graphml
 from graphrag.storage.pipeline_storage import PipelineStorage
 
 workflow_name = "extract_graph"
@@ -90,18 +93,38 @@ async def workflow(
         text_units,
         callbacks,
         cache,
-        storage,
         extraction_strategy=extraction_strategy,
         extraction_num_threads=extraction_num_threads,
         extraction_async_mode=extraction_async_mode,
         entity_types=entity_types,
         summarization_strategy=summarization_strategy,
         summarization_num_threads=summarization_num_threads,
-        snapshot_graphml_enabled=snapshot_graphml_enabled,
-        snapshot_transient_enabled=snapshot_transient_enabled,
     )
 
     await runtime_storage.set("base_entity_nodes", base_entity_nodes)
     await runtime_storage.set("base_relationship_edges", base_relationship_edges)
 
+    if snapshot_graphml_enabled:
+        # todo: extract graphs at each level, and add in meta like descriptions
+        graph = create_graph(base_relationship_edges)
+        await snapshot_graphml(
+            graph,
+            name="graph",
+            storage=storage,
+        )
+
+    if snapshot_transient_enabled:
+        await snapshot(
+            base_entity_nodes,
+            name="base_entity_nodes",
+            storage=storage,
+            formats=["parquet"],
+        )
+        await snapshot(
+            base_relationship_edges,
+            name="base_relationship_edges",
+            storage=storage,
+            formats=["parquet"],
+        )
+
     return create_verb_result(cast("Table", pd.DataFrame()))
diff --git a/tests/fixtures/min-csv/config.json b/tests/fixtures/min-csv/config.json
index 3fb865dce..86b4c49a1 100644
--- a/tests/fixtures/min-csv/config.json
+++ b/tests/fixtures/min-csv/config.json
@@ -58,8 +58,8 @@
             ],
             "nan_allowed_columns": [
                 "description",
-                "community",
-                "level"
+                "x",
+                "y"
             ],
             "subworkflows": 1,
             "max_runtime": 150,
diff --git a/tests/fixtures/text/config.json b/tests/fixtures/text/config.json
index 812603dd8..cf4180857 100644
--- a/tests/fixtures/text/config.json
+++ b/tests/fixtures/text/config.json
@@ -76,8 +76,8 @@
             ],
             "nan_allowed_columns": [
                 "description",
-                "community",
-                "level"
+                "x",
+                "y"
             ],
             "subworkflows": 1,
             "max_runtime": 150,
diff --git a/tests/unit/indexing/verbs/entities/extraction/strategies/graph_intelligence/test_gi_entity_extraction.py b/tests/unit/indexing/verbs/entities/extraction/strategies/graph_intelligence/test_gi_entity_extraction.py
index a5336d24b..0403bee4d 100644
--- a/tests/unit/indexing/verbs/entities/extraction/strategies/graph_intelligence/test_gi_entity_extraction.py
+++ b/tests/unit/indexing/verbs/entities/extraction/strategies/graph_intelligence/test_gi_entity_extraction.py
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ async def test_run_extract_entities_single_document_correct_entities_returned(se
         # self.assertItemsEqual isn't available yet, or I am just silly
         # so we sort the lists and compare them
         assert sorted(["TEST_ENTITY_1", "TEST_ENTITY_2", "TEST_ENTITY_3"]) == sorted([
-            entity["name"] for entity in results.entities
+            entity["title"] for entity in results.entities
         ])
 
     async def test_run_extract_entities_multiple_documents_correct_entities_returned(
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ async def test_run_extract_entities_multiple_documents_correct_entities_returned
         # self.assertItemsEqual isn't available yet, or I am just silly
         # so we sort the lists and compare them
         assert sorted(["TEST_ENTITY_1", "TEST_ENTITY_2", "TEST_ENTITY_3"]) == sorted([
-            entity["name"] for entity in results.entities
+            entity["title"] for entity in results.entities
         ])
 
     async def test_run_extract_entities_multiple_documents_correct_edges_returned(self):
diff --git a/tests/verbs/data/base_communities.parquet b/tests/verbs/data/base_communities.parquet
index d9c32028a..93edaa450 100644
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diff --git a/tests/verbs/data/base_entity_nodes.parquet b/tests/verbs/data/base_entity_nodes.parquet
index 0240e7835..2b13b1db5 100644
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diff --git a/tests/verbs/data/base_relationship_edges.parquet b/tests/verbs/data/base_relationship_edges.parquet
index 4f1e30255..4f2b4d837 100644
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diff --git a/tests/verbs/data/create_base_text_units.parquet b/tests/verbs/data/create_base_text_units.parquet
index 4e1ae106f..2f8c7f903 100644
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diff --git a/tests/verbs/data/create_final_communities.parquet b/tests/verbs/data/create_final_communities.parquet
index 6c170751c..dbb0dd8b2 100644
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diff --git a/tests/verbs/data/create_final_community_reports.parquet b/tests/verbs/data/create_final_community_reports.parquet
index 5b29215f5..a04e16157 100644
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diff --git a/tests/verbs/data/create_final_covariates.parquet b/tests/verbs/data/create_final_covariates.parquet
index 64b8928b4..798098cd1 100644
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diff --git a/tests/verbs/data/create_final_documents.parquet b/tests/verbs/data/create_final_documents.parquet
index e90c863e7..33cb2ae3b 100644
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diff --git a/tests/verbs/data/create_final_entities.parquet b/tests/verbs/data/create_final_entities.parquet
index 0938f7923..4c7cd2db4 100644
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diff --git a/tests/verbs/data/create_final_nodes.parquet b/tests/verbs/data/create_final_nodes.parquet
index 5ac4fea26..5a3afdaa6 100644
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diff --git a/tests/verbs/data/create_final_relationships.parquet b/tests/verbs/data/create_final_relationships.parquet
index 9b8b16c8c..911b3c2b4 100644
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diff --git a/tests/verbs/data/create_final_text_units.parquet b/tests/verbs/data/create_final_text_units.parquet
index 885377929..f5766acb2 100644
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diff --git a/tests/verbs/test_compute_communities.py b/tests/verbs/test_compute_communities.py
index 07db7d42c..5c91fc46b 100644
--- a/tests/verbs/test_compute_communities.py
+++ b/tests/verbs/test_compute_communities.py
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@
 from graphrag.index.flows.compute_communities import (
     compute_communities,
 )
-from graphrag.index.run.utils import create_run_context
 from graphrag.index.workflows.v1.compute_communities import (
     workflow_name,
 )
@@ -16,37 +15,15 @@
 )
 
 
-async def test_compute_communities():
+def test_compute_communities():
     edges = load_test_table("base_relationship_edges")
     expected = load_test_table("base_communities")
 
-    context = create_run_context(None, None, None)
     config = get_config_for_workflow(workflow_name)
     clustering_strategy = config["cluster_graph"]["strategy"]
 
-    actual = await compute_communities(
-        edges, storage=context.storage, clustering_strategy=clustering_strategy
-    )
+    actual = compute_communities(edges, clustering_strategy=clustering_strategy)
 
     columns = list(expected.columns.values)
     compare_outputs(actual, expected, columns)
     assert len(actual.columns) == len(expected.columns)
-
-
-async def test_compute_communities_with_snapshots():
-    edges = load_test_table("base_relationship_edges")
-
-    context = create_run_context(None, None, None)
-    config = get_config_for_workflow(workflow_name)
-    clustering_strategy = config["cluster_graph"]["strategy"]
-
-    await compute_communities(
-        edges,
-        storage=context.storage,
-        clustering_strategy=clustering_strategy,
-        snapshot_transient_enabled=True,
-    )
-
-    assert context.storage.keys() == [
-        "base_communities.parquet",
-    ], "Community snapshot keys differ"
diff --git a/tests/verbs/test_create_final_relationships.py b/tests/verbs/test_create_final_relationships.py
index 3d3a4faf3..9f01e0830 100644
--- a/tests/verbs/test_create_final_relationships.py
+++ b/tests/verbs/test_create_final_relationships.py
@@ -16,10 +16,9 @@
 
 def test_create_final_relationships():
     edges = load_test_table("base_relationship_edges")
-    nodes = load_test_table("base_entity_nodes")
     expected = load_test_table(workflow_name)
 
-    actual = create_final_relationships(edges, nodes)
+    actual = create_final_relationships(edges)
 
     assert "id" in expected.columns
     columns = list(expected.columns.values)