US Patent 11366966 Named entity recognition and disambiguation engine

Methods, and systems for named entity recognition and disambiguation. One of the methods includes: receiving a document; extracting a plurality of mentions within the document; clustering the plurality of mentions to produce at least one cluster; identifying a plurality of candidate entities for the cluster; pairing each candidate entity and the cluster to create a plurality of candidate entity-cluster pairings; generating features for each candidate entity-cluster pairing; and selecting an entity, from the plurality of candidate entities, for the cluster based at least in part on features of a candidate entity pairing.