Patent Document ID: 9779363
Application ID: 14565158

Base Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method of disambiguating personal names, the method comprising: for each of multiple personal names, categorizing the personal name as being: famous; or non-famous and: common; or uncommon; and using the computer to: extract a first personal name identified in an electronic content item, wherein multiple people have the first personal name; if the first personal name is non-famous and common, execute a first model to identify, among the multiple people, one person to whom the electronic content item refers; if the first personal name is non-famous and uncommon, execute a second model, different from the first model, to identify the one person; and transmit the electronic content item to a user that requested content items that reference the one person.

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Claim 3:
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein categorizing a personal name comprises: determining the number of persons in the multiple people; categorizing the personal name as common if the number of persons is greater than a threshold; and categorizing the personal name as uncommon if the number of persons is less than the threshold.