2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: using one or more named entity recognition (NER) systems to provide input for entity disambiguation; each NER providing mention start and stop boundaries, entity type assertions, and confidence values.
2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: using one or more named entity recognition (NER) systems to provide input for entity disambiguation; each NER providing mention start and stop boundaries, entity type assertions, and confidence values. 3. The method of claim 2 , further comprising: said NER systems using document-level or corpus-level information.