Patent Document ID: 9558186
Application ID: 14460117

Base Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method for extracting facts, the method comprising: at a computer system including one or more processors and memory storing one or more programs, the one or more processors executing the one or more programs to perform the operations of: identifying a first fact having an attribute and a value obtained from a first document; retrieving a second document that contains the attribute and the value of the first fact; identifying in the second document a contextual pattern associated with the attribute and value of the first fact; extracting a second fact from the second document using the contextual pattern, the second fact having an attribute that is different than the attribute of the first fact and having a value that is different than the value of the first fact; and storing the first fact and the second fact in a fact repository of the computer system.

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Claim 2:
2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: extracting a third fact from a third document using the contextual pattern, the third fact having an attribute that is different than the attribute of the first fact or the attribute of the second fact and having a value that is different than the value of the first fact or the value of the second fact.