16. A computer implemented method of identifying persons related to a query, comprising: processing a query to obtain a query result; dividing the query result into a number of different sections; identifying a set of people based on a number of co-occurrences of a name identifying a person and a subject matter of the query within one of the different sections; ranking the set of people based at least in part on the number of co-occurrences; identifying relationships, from the query result, between at least some of the people in the set of people, by: identifying topics that co-occur in the query result with different people in the set of people; and identifying people in the set of people, that co-occur with each other in a given section of the query result; re-ranking the set of people based on the identified relationships; and generating an output based on the re-ranking.
19. The computer implemented method of claim 16 , wherein re-ranking comprises: for each person of the set of people, computing a score for the person based on a relationship of the person with another person in the set of people; and ranking the set of people based on the computed scores.