Related entities

• Main Authors: Levy, Jared L, Thakur, Shashidhar A, Gupta, Pravir K, Dhanaraj, Christina R, Hong, Peter Jin, Chung, Grace, Goel, Kavi J, Menzel, Jack W, Gaylinn, Nathaniel J, Kazhiyur-Mannar, Ramakrishnan, Bar-Or, Omer, Tsai, Benson
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 28.09.2017
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; PHYSICS

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for identifying entities that are related to an entity to which a search query is directed. One of the methods includes receiving a search query, wherein the search query has been determined to relate to a first entity of a first entity type, and wherein one or more entities of a second entity type have a relationship with the first entity; receiving search results for the search query; determining that a count of search results identifying a resource containing a reference to the first entity satisfies a first threshold value; determining that a count of search results identifying a resource having the second entity type as a relevant entity type satisfies a second threshold value; and transmitting information identifying the one or more entities of the second entity type as part of the response to the search query.