diff --git a/lib/sycamore/sycamore/schema.py b/lib/sycamore/sycamore/schema.py
index 40a49a5ba..6f4c623b2 100644
--- a/lib/sycamore/sycamore/schema.py
+++ b/lib/sycamore/sycamore/schema.py
@@ -7,11 +7,13 @@ class SchemaField(BaseModel):
     """Represents a field in a DocSet schema."""
 
     name: str
+    """The name of the field."""
 
     field_type: str
     """The type of the field."""
 
     default: Optional[Any] = None
+    """The default value for the field."""
 
     description: Optional[str] = None
     """A natural language description of the field."""
diff --git a/lib/sycamore/sycamore/tests/integration/transforms/test_data_extraction.py b/lib/sycamore/sycamore/tests/integration/transforms/test_data_extraction.py
index 883ef8df3..e682fdef6 100644
--- a/lib/sycamore/sycamore/tests/integration/transforms/test_data_extraction.py
+++ b/lib/sycamore/sycamore/tests/integration/transforms/test_data_extraction.py
@@ -11,13 +11,15 @@ def test_extract_properties_from_schema():
         Document(
             {
                 "doc_id": "doc_1",
-                "text_representation": "My name is Vinayak & I'm a 74 year old software engineer from Honolulu Hawaii",
+                "text_representation": "My name is Vinayak & I'm a 74 year old software engineer from Honolulu Hawaii. "
+                "This information was written on feb 24, 1923",
             }
         ),
         Document(
             {
                 "doc_id": "doc_2",
-                "text_representation": "is a strange case of anti-viral research found in New Delhi.",
+                "text_representation": "is a strange case of anti-viral research found in New Delhi.\n "
+                "info date: jan eleven 2014",
             }
         ),
     ]
@@ -31,6 +33,7 @@ def test_extract_properties_from_schema():
                 examples=["Mark", "Ollie", "Winston"],
             ),
             SchemaField(name="age", field_type="int", default=999),
+            SchemaField(name="date", field_type="str", description="Any date in the doc in YYYY-MM-DD format"),
             SchemaField(
                 name="from_location",
                 field_type="str",
@@ -52,7 +55,9 @@ def test_extract_properties_from_schema():
     assert taken[0].properties["entity"]["name"] == "Vinayak"
     assert taken[0].properties["entity"]["age"] == 74
     assert taken[0].properties["entity"]["from_location"] == "Honolulu, HI", "Invalid location extracted or formatted"
+    assert taken[0].properties["entity"]["date"] == "1923-02-24"
 
     assert taken[1].properties["entity"]["name"] is None, "Default None value not being used correctly"
     assert taken[1].properties["entity"]["age"] == 999, "Default value not being used correctly"
     assert taken[1].properties["entity"]["from_location"] == "New Delhi"
+    assert taken[1].properties["entity"]["date"] == "2014-01-11"