8. The method of claim 1 wherein the disambiguating which entities are being referred to in the indicated text segment by determining the one or more most likely entities which are referred to in the text segment by comparing, using both linguistic and contextual information, the entity profiles generated for each potential entity name with attributes of one or more candidate entities further comprises: resolving the one or more most likely entities to a single identified entity by performing iterative comparisons reusing entity disambiguation information gained from a prior comparison until no new entity disambiguation information is gained.
9. The method of claim 8 wherein the terms are weighted based upon at least one of a binary weight or a frequency weight.