12. The method of claim 7 , wherein the at least one other feature is based on at least one of an edit distance and a word overlap between the candidate named entities in the pair.
7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the computing of the similarity comprises inputting at least one socio-temporal feature for the pair of the candidate named entities into a classifier trained to output a similarity score, the at least one socio-temporal feature being based on a similarity between the event profiles of the candidate named entities in the pair.