GROUPING SEARCH RESULTS INTO A PROFILE PAGE

摘要

Methods are disclosed for grouping search results into a profile page. A search engine accepts a user search string and generates a first set of results. In response to the first set of results, a query generator generates a plurality of queries corresponding to a number of entities sharing a common name. The search engine executes the plurality of queries, returning a plurality of responsive data sets. An entity resolver merges the data sets to ensure that each unique entity is represented by a single data set. A threshold may be defined such that results meeting a certain level of similarity are merged. A profile generator creates a profile page for each unique entity using biographical data contained in the sets of search results, and also generates a results page containing links to each unique profile. The results page is then sent to the user for display on a graphical user interface.