1. A computer-implemented method comprising the following operations performed by at least one processor: receiving a query, wherein the query is associated at least in part with a type of entity; generating search results based at least in part on the query; ranking the search results based on relevance to the query; retrieving previously generated data associated with at least one search result of the search results, the previously generated data comprising one or more entity references in the at least one search result corresponding to the type of entity; determining, based on the relevance to the query, a subset of the ranked search results that are above a first predetermined ranking threshold; determining, for each entity reference, a weighted sum of the frequencies of occurrence of the entity reference in each search result in the subset of ranked search results, wherein the weighted sum normalizes the frequency of occurrence of each respective entity reference for each previously generated data; ranking the one or more entity references based on the respective weighted sums; selecting an entity result from the one or more entity references based at least in part on the ranking of the one or more entity references; and providing an answer to the query based at least in part on the entity result.