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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2017
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Manoj Mahipat Pawar, San Jose, CA (US);
Li-Tal Mashiach, Redmond, WA (US);
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a text query from a client system of a user and parsing the text query to identify a primary entity referenced in the text query. The method also includes identifying one or more related entities for the primary entity based on one or more related-entity indexes associated with the primary entity and identifying one or more content objects matching the text query, each identified content object being associated with one or more of the related entities. The method also includes sending to the client system instructions for presenting one or more search results corresponding to one or more of the identified content objects, respectively, each search result including a reference to the associated related entity and a snippet for the related entity describing the relationship between the primary entity and the related entity.