1. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving a query, wherein the query is associated at least in part with a type of entity; generating one or more search results based at least in part on the query; retrieving previously generated data associated with at least one search result of the one or more 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; ranking the one or more entity references; selecting an entity result from the one or more entity references based at least in part on the ranking; and providing an answer to the query based at least in part on the entity result.