[Python] Pylance doesn't like calling `[]` on a dict-inherited class

PyAlex has the class OpenAlexEntity:

class OpenAlexEntity(dict):
"""Base class for OpenAlex entities."""

pass


and Author:

class Author(OpenAlexEntity):
"""Class representing an author entity in OpenAlex."""

pass


So given the following code:

insts = Institutions().search("MIT").get()
inst = insts[0]
inst["display_name"]


It correctly works and returns

'Massachusetts Institute of Technology'
​

However, PyLance underlines it in red showing the following error:

No overloads for "__getitem__" match the provided argumentsPylancereportCallIssue
builtins.pyi(1062, 9): Overload 2 is the closest match




How can I fix this?

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