diff --git a/lightrag/kg/postgres_impl.py b/lightrag/kg/postgres_impl.py
index 97d3316c..bcee7fa2 100644
--- a/lightrag/kg/postgres_impl.py
+++ b/lightrag/kg/postgres_impl.py
@@ -1049,10 +1049,10 @@ class PGGraphStorage(BaseGraphStorage):
         Returns:
             Normalized node ID suitable for Cypher queries
         """
-        # Remove quotes
-        normalized_id = node_id.strip('"')
         # Escape backslashes
+        normalized_id = node_id
         normalized_id = normalized_id.replace("\\", "\\\\")
+        normalized_id = normalized_id.replace('"', '\\"')
         return normalized_id
 
     async def initialize(self):
diff --git a/lightrag/operate.py b/lightrag/operate.py
index 84e1364e..f653d479 100644
--- a/lightrag/operate.py
+++ b/lightrag/operate.py
@@ -157,8 +157,8 @@ async def _handle_single_entity_extraction(
         return None
 
     # Clean and validate entity name
-    entity_name = clean_str(record_attributes[1]).strip('"')
-    if not entity_name.strip():
+    entity_name = clean_str(record_attributes[1]).strip()
+    if not entity_name:
         logger.warning(
             f"Entity extraction error: empty entity name in: {record_attributes}"
         )
diff --git a/lightrag/utils.py b/lightrag/utils.py
index 37400069..913c39f3 100644
--- a/lightrag/utils.py
+++ b/lightrag/utils.py
@@ -1385,7 +1385,12 @@ def normalize_extracted_info(name: str, is_entity=False) -> str:
     name = re.sub(r"(?<=[a-zA-Z0-9])\s+(?=[\u4e00-\u9fa5])", "", name)
 
     # Remove English quotation marks from the beginning and end
-    name = name.strip('"').strip("'")
+    if (
+        len(name) >= 2
+        and name.startswith('"')
+        and name.endswith('"')
+    ):
+        name = name[1:-1]
 
     if is_entity:
         # remove Chinese quotes