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.
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. 13. The method of claim 7 , wherein the providing for merging the candidate named entities into a common real named entity, based on the computed similarity comprises merging a pair of candidate named entities when the classifier score meets a predefined threshold.