15. The method of claim 1 , wherein the text to be evaluated for disambiguation of surface forms may be selected from among a group of optional units of text consisting of: a document, a page, a paragraph, a sentence, and a manually selected portion of text.
16. The method of claim 15 , further comprising first evaluating the one or more measures of similarity between a larger one of the units of text and the one or more entity indicators, and if more than one of the reference named entities is identified as having associated entity indicators with a relatively high correlation to the entity indicators in the text, then evaluating the one or more measures of correlation between an iteratively smaller one of the units of text and the one or more entity indicators, until a unique reference named entity is identified as having associated entity indicators with a relatively high correlation to the entity indicators in the text.