diff --git a/js/app/src/pages/trace/span/LLMToolSchemasList.tsx b/js/app/src/pages/trace/span/LLMToolSchemasList.tsx
index 3efd9e96309..1450bdb148e 100644
--- a/js/app/src/pages/trace/span/LLMToolSchemasList.tsx
+++ b/js/app/src/pages/trace/span/LLMToolSchemasList.tsx
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import { SpanKindIcon } from "@phoenix/components/trace";
 
 import { defaultCardProps } from "./constants";
 import { MimeTypeCodeBlock } from "./MimeTypeCodeBlock";
+import { getToolSchemaName } from "./utils";
 
 /**
  * A card displaying a single tool JSON schema available to the LLM.
@@ -22,10 +23,11 @@ function LLMToolSchema({
   toolSchema: string;
   index: number;
 }) {
+  const name = getToolSchemaName(toolSchema);
   const titleEl = (
     <Flex direction="row" gap="size-100" alignItems="center">
       <SpanKindIcon spanKind="tool" />
-      <Text weight="heavy">Tool</Text>
+      <Text weight="heavy">{name == null ? "Tool" : `Tool: ${name}`}</Text>
     </Flex>
   );
 
diff --git a/js/app/src/pages/trace/span/__tests__/utils.test.ts b/js/app/src/pages/trace/span/__tests__/utils.test.ts
index df929a61b22..15ed143317e 100644
--- a/js/app/src/pages/trace/span/__tests__/utils.test.ts
+++ b/js/app/src/pages/trace/span/__tests__/utils.test.ts
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import {
   getRerankerAttributes,
   getRetrieverAttributes,
   getToolAttributes,
+  getToolSchemaName,
   groupDocumentEvaluationsByPosition,
   parseSpanAttributes,
 } from "../utils";
@@ -382,6 +383,36 @@ describe("getToolAttributes", () => {
   });
 });
 
+describe("getToolSchemaName", () => {
+  it("reads the name of an openai style tool definition", () => {
+    expect(
+      getToolSchemaName(
+        '{"type":"function","function":{"name":"get_weather","parameters":{"type":"object"}}}'
+      )
+    ).toBe("get_weather");
+  });
+
+  it("reads the name of an anthropic style tool definition", () => {
+    expect(
+      getToolSchemaName(
+        '{"name":"get_weather","input_schema":{"type":"object"}}'
+      )
+    ).toBe("get_weather");
+  });
+
+  it("falls back to the title of a bare parameter schema", () => {
+    expect(getToolSchemaName('{"title":"get_weather","type":"object"}')).toBe(
+      "get_weather"
+    );
+  });
+
+  it("returns undefined when the schema names no tool", () => {
+    expect(getToolSchemaName('{"type":"object"}')).toBeUndefined();
+    expect(getToolSchemaName('{"name":""}')).toBeUndefined();
+    expect(getToolSchemaName("not json")).toBeUndefined();
+  });
+});
+
 describe("groupDocumentEvaluationsByPosition", () => {
   const makeEvaluation = (
     documentPosition: number,
diff --git a/js/app/src/pages/trace/span/utils.ts b/js/app/src/pages/trace/span/utils.ts
index 408c134ab0b..e9390e2a645 100644
--- a/js/app/src/pages/trace/span/utils.ts
+++ b/js/app/src/pages/trace/span/utils.ts
@@ -23,7 +23,10 @@ import {
   toRecordPreview,
   toToolCallsPreview,
 } from "@phoenix/utils/contentPreviewUtils";
-import { safelyParseJSON } from "@phoenix/utils/jsonUtils";
+import {
+  safelyParseJSON,
+  safelyParseJSONObjectString,
+} from "@phoenix/utils/jsonUtils";
 
 import type {
   AttributeObject,
@@ -290,6 +293,23 @@ export function getEmbeddingAttributes(spanAttributes: AttributeObject): {
   };
 }
 
+/**
+ * The name of the tool a JSON schema recorded on an LLM span describes.
+ *
+ * Makes a best-effort attempt to parse the name out of the schema.
+ */
+export function getToolSchemaName(toolSchema: string): string | undefined {
+  const schema = safelyParseJSONObjectString(toolSchema) as
+    | Record<string, unknown>
+    | undefined;
+  if (schema == null) {
+    return undefined;
+  }
+  const fn = (schema.function ?? {}) as Record<string, unknown>;
+  const name = fn.name ?? schema.name ?? schema.title;
+  return typeof name === "string" && name !== "" ? name : undefined;
+}
+
 /**
  * The attributes describing the tool of a tool span.
  */
diff --git a/src/phoenix/server/agents/pydantic_ai/openinference_model_wrapper.py b/src/phoenix/server/agents/pydantic_ai/openinference_model_wrapper.py
index acaf10db0ca..cafe0470130 100644
--- a/src/phoenix/server/agents/pydantic_ai/openinference_model_wrapper.py
+++ b/src/phoenix/server/agents/pydantic_ai/openinference_model_wrapper.py
@@ -258,11 +258,11 @@ def _response_to_oi_message(msg: ModelResponse) -> Message:
 def _to_oi_tools(params: ModelRequestParameters) -> list[Tool]:
     tools: list[Tool] = []
     for tool_def in params.function_tools or []:
-        schema: dict[str, Any] = {**tool_def.parameters_json_schema}
-        schema.setdefault("title", tool_def.name)
+        function: dict[str, Any] = {"name": tool_def.name}
         if tool_def.description:
-            schema.setdefault("description", tool_def.description)
-        tools.append({"json_schema": schema})
+            function["description"] = tool_def.description
+        function["parameters"] = tool_def.parameters_json_schema
+        tools.append({"json_schema": {"type": "function", "function": function}})
     return tools
 
 
diff --git a/tests/unit/server/agents/pydantic_ai/test_openinference_model_wrapper.py b/tests/unit/server/agents/pydantic_ai/test_openinference_model_wrapper.py
index 826d6158d45..599284e96fe 100644
--- a/tests/unit/server/agents/pydantic_ai/test_openinference_model_wrapper.py
+++ b/tests/unit/server/agents/pydantic_ai/test_openinference_model_wrapper.py
@@ -293,9 +293,10 @@ async def test_request_emits_llm_span_for_tool_call_response(
     tool_schema_attr = attributes.pop(f"{LLM_TOOLS}.0.{TOOL_JSON_SCHEMA}")
     assert isinstance(tool_schema_attr, str)
     tool_schema = json.loads(tool_schema_attr)
-    assert tool_schema["title"] == "get_weather"
-    assert tool_schema["description"] == "Look up the current weather for a city."
-    assert tool_schema["required"] == ["city"]
+    assert tool_schema["type"] == "function"
+    assert tool_schema["function"]["name"] == "get_weather"
+    assert tool_schema["function"]["description"] == "Look up the current weather for a city."
+    assert tool_schema["function"]["parameters"] == weather_tool.parameters_json_schema
 
     assert attributes.pop(f"{LLM_INPUT_MESSAGES}.0.{MESSAGE_ROLE}") == "system"
     assert isinstance(attributes.pop(f"{LLM_INPUT_MESSAGES}.0.{MESSAGE_CONTENT}"), str)
@@ -581,9 +582,10 @@ async def test_request_emits_tool_return_message_in_history(
     tool_schema_attr = attributes.pop(f"{LLM_TOOLS}.0.{TOOL_JSON_SCHEMA}")
     assert isinstance(tool_schema_attr, str)
     tool_schema = json.loads(tool_schema_attr)
-    assert tool_schema["title"] == "get_weather"
-    assert tool_schema["description"] == "Look up the current weather for a city."
-    assert tool_schema["required"] == ["city"]
+    assert tool_schema["type"] == "function"
+    assert tool_schema["function"]["name"] == "get_weather"
+    assert tool_schema["function"]["description"] == "Look up the current weather for a city."
+    assert tool_schema["function"]["parameters"] == weather_tool.parameters_json_schema
 
     # Message 0: system prompt.
     assert attributes.pop(f"{LLM_INPUT_MESSAGES}.0.{MESSAGE_ROLE}") == "system"