Patent Document ID: 9779388
Application ID: 14565165

Base Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method of disambiguating organization names, the method comprising: selecting multiple names of organizations; and using the computer to: extract a first name identified in an electronic content item, wherein multiple different organizations have the first name; for each of the multiple organizations, assemble a corresponding feature vector comprising: a set of name features reflecting use of the first name in the electronic content item; and a set of affiliation features reflecting one or more affiliations of the organization also identified in the electronic content item; execute a model to identify, among the multiple organizations, only one organization to which the electronic content item refers; and make the electronic content item available to a user interested in content items that reference the one organization.

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Claim 2:
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein executing a model comprises, for each organization in the multiple organizations: applying the model to the organization's corresponding feature vector; and receiving as output from the model an indication as to whether the first name refers to the organization.