公开(公告)号：US20170098013A1

公开(公告)日：2017-04-06

申请号：US14874814

申请日：2015-10-05

Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.

Inventor： Sanika Shirwadkar ,  Daozheng Chen ,  Guillaume Le Chenadec ,  Ralph Rabbat ,  Prateeksha Uday Chandraghatgi

IPC: G06F17/30

CPC classification number: G06F16/36

Abstract: The present teaching relates to entity extraction and disambiguation. In one example, an entity name extracted from a data source associated with a user is obtained. One or more entity types associated with the entity name are determined. One or more entity candidates are identified with respect to each of the one or more entity types. An entity candidate is selected with respect to one of the one or more entity types to be an individual associated with the entity name.