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 4:
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein executing a model comprises, for each person in the multiple people: generating a corresponding feature vector comprising: a set of name features derived from occurrences of the personal name in the electronic content item; and a set of affiliation features derived from occurrences of names of affiliations of the person in the electronic content item; applying the model to the person's corresponding feature vector; and receiving as output from the model an indication as to whether the personal name refers to the person.