Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Chiyuan Huang

Kuansan Wang

Bo-June Hsu

Yu-ting Kuo

Jeremy Espenshade

Arnab Sinha

Described herein are technologies that are configured to assist a user in recollection information about people, places, and things. Computer-readable data is captured, and contextual data that temporally corresponds to the computer-readable data is also captured. In a database, the computer-readable data is indexed by the contextual data. Thus, when a query is received that references the contextual data, the computer-readable data is retrieved.

Extended memory system

Reductions in churn for assigning identifiers to entities in a knowledge graph enables several improvements to the functionality of the computing devices maintaining or accessing knowledge graphs. As the aliases or other terms used to identify a given entity change in response to updates to the knowledge graph, the identifiers assigned to various entities may change. For example, two individual entities conflated as one node may be split into two or two nodes merged into one in response to an update, and existing identifiers should be used to reduce churn. To select the existing identifiers to assign to a given updated entity, the aliases are clustered with the updated entities and the unique modal prior identifier is assigned as the identifier for the updated entity. Higher orders of modality are used to ensure as many existing identifiers are used before creating new identifiers.

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