1. A method for coreference resolution comprising: receiving a set of document clusters, each cluster in the set of document clusters comprising a set of text documents; identifying instances of each of a set of candidate named entities in the document clusters; for each of the candidate named entities, generating an event profile which is based on the identified instances of that candidate name entity in each cluster of the set of document clusters; with a processor, computing a similarity between a pair of the candidate named entities based on their respective event profiles; and providing a decision for merging for the candidate named entities into a common real named entity, based on the computed similarity.