11. The method of claim 1 further comprising determining a combined relevancy score associated with the entity based on the relevancy score and at least one additional factor.
1. A computer implemented method comprising: receiving a list comprising an entity, the entity having been identified as being associated with an electronic document; based solely upon a set of characteristics of the document, determining a relevancy score associated with the entity with respect to the document, wherein the set of characteristics includes at least one characteristic from the group consisting of: a first number representing a number of sentences occurring in the document prior to a first sentence in which the entity is named; a second number representing a number of sentences between first and last occurrences of the entity within the document; and a third number representing a uniformity with which the entity occurs within the document; and storing the relevancy score.