DISAMBIGUATION OF ONLINE SOCIAL MENTIONS

摘要

The technology disclosed relates to identifying entity reflections that refer to a same real-world entity. In particular, it relates to using statistical functions to make probabilistic deductions about entity attributes, which are used to construct optimal combinations of entity attributes. These optimal combinations of entity attributes are further used to generate search queries that return more precise search results with greater recall.

主权项

1. A method of searching online social profiles of real-world entities on an online social network, the method including:
specifying one or more core entity attributes as a first search attribute set for use in searching an online social network; electronically receiving, responsive to searching the online social network based on the first search attribute set, entity reflections that include supplemental entity attributes for real-world entities; and using a combination of the core entity attributes and one or more supplemental entity attributes to electronically receive more entity reflections that include meta entity attributes for the real-world entities.