7. A method, comprising: receiving a first search request relating to information stored in an ontology, wherein the ontology comprises at least one instance and the instance has a name; parsing the first search request to determine if the first search request is an instance based search that comprises all or part of a name of at least a first instance in the ontology; performing a first query of a search index associated with the ontology in response to determining that the first search request is an instance based search; receiving a second search request relating to information stored in the ontology; parsing the second search request to determine if the second search request is an instance based search that comprises all or part of a name of at least a second instance in the ontology; and performing a second query of at least the ontology in response to determining that the second search request is not an instance based search; receiving a third search request relating to information not stored in the ontology; parsing the third search request to determine that the third search request is an instance based search that comprises all or part of a name of at least a third instance in the ontology; performing a third query of the search index and retrieving metadata associated with the third instance from the search index, wherein the metadata comprises information about a data source associated with the third instance; retrieving information from the data source that are not stored in the ontology; and wherein the search index and the ontology queried in parallel, wherein the search index is generated based at least in part upon an unstructured data element by streaming and normalizing received data terms from the data source and the ontology is generated based at least in part upon an structured data element at least one data mitigation and classification rule.
11. The method of claim 7 , further comprising generating the search index at least in part by indexing data stored in the ontology.