27. An article comprising a non-transitory machine-readable medium, the medium having stored thereon instructions to be executed by a machine to perform operations, the article comprising instructions for: receiving a list comprising a term, the term having been identified as being associated with an electronic document; based solely upon a set of characteristics of the document, determining and assigning a relevancy score to the term 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 term appears; a second number representing a number of sentences between first and last occurrences of the term within the document; and a third number representing a uniformity with which the term occurs within the document; and storing the relevancy score.
27. An article comprising a non-transitory machine-readable medium, the medium having stored thereon instructions to be executed by a machine to perform operations, the article comprising instructions for: receiving a list comprising a term, the term having been identified as being associated with an electronic document; based solely upon a set of characteristics of the document, determining and assigning a relevancy score to the term 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 term appears; a second number representing a number of sentences between first and last occurrences of the term within the document; and a third number representing a uniformity with which the term occurs within the document; and storing the relevancy score. 35. The article of claim 27 further comprising instructions for determining a plurality of relevancy scores for a plurality of entities and instructions for determining a ranking of the plurality of entities based at least in part on the plurality of relevancy scores and at least one additional factor.