Patent Document ID: 8073877
Application ID: 12356467

Base Claim:
1. A method, comprising: obtaining a set of candidates and corresponding contexts, each of the set of candidates being a potential seed example of an entity; obtaining a set of seed examples of the entity and corresponding contexts; identifying a subset of the set of candidates to be added to the set of seed examples, at least in part, by comparing the contexts of at least a portion of the set of candidates with the contexts of the set of seed examples of the entity; adding the subset of the set of candidates to the set of seed examples; creating a set of rules from the set of seed examples obtained in the adding step; and generating a final set of seed examples of the entity by executing the set of rules against the set of candidates.

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Claim 5:
5. The method as recited in claim 1 , wherein comparing the contexts of at least a portion of the set of candidates with contexts of a set of seed examples of the entity comprises: comparing contexts of each of the set of candidates with contexts in which one or more of the set of seed examples appear in order to obtain the subset of the set of candidates having contexts most similar to contexts of the set of seed examples.