Patent Document ID: 9418128
Application ID: 14304641

Base Claim:
1. One or more computer storage media having embodied thereon computer-usable instructions that, when executed, perform a method of entity linking, comprising: identifying mentions of entities within a document; identifying candidate entities associated with each mention; defining mention-entity pairs for each mention and the associated candidate entities; identifying a confidence score for each mention-entity pair; identifying relationships between the candidate entities; for each mention-entity pair, updating the confidence score based on the relationships between the associated candidate entity and the candidate entities associated with other mention-entity pairs; selecting candidate entities from the mention-entity pairs based on the updated confidence scores; and ranking the selected entities, wherein the ranking indicates a relevance of the selected entities to a topic of the document.

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Claim 7:
7. The media of claim 1 , the method further comprising as each candidate entity is selected, eliminating any mention-entity pairs that are mutually exclusive with the mention entity-pair that corresponds to the selected candidate entity.