1. A method, comprising: obtaining a set of candidates and corresponding contexts, each of the set of candidates being a potential seed example of an entity; obtaining a set of seed examples of the entity and corresponding contexts; identifying a subset of the set of candidates to be added to the set of seed examples, at least in part, by comparing the contexts of at least a portion of the set of candidates with the contexts of the set of seed examples of the entity; adding the subset of the set of candidates to the set of seed examples; creating a set of rules from the set of seed examples obtained in the adding step; and generating a final set of seed examples of the entity by executing the set of rules against the set of candidates.
13. The method as recited in claim 1 , wherein the entity is a semi-structured entity.