21. One or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed, cause one or more processors to perform acts comprising: identifying a plurality of named entities within a written work; for a named entity of the plurality of named entities: identifying one or more textual strings associated with the named entity; calculating a significance value based at least in part on a location of the one or more textual strings associated with the named entity within the written work; determining that the named entity is included in other written works; updating the significance value for the named entity based at least in part on the inclusion of the named entity in the other written works; and selecting a primary textual string from the one or more textual strings associated with the named entity; and providing a list of at least a portion of the plurality of named entities, the list including the primary textual string and other primary textual strings for the at least the portion of the plurality of named entities and the list being sorted based at least in part on the significance value.
21. One or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed, cause one or more processors to perform acts comprising: identifying a plurality of named entities within a written work; for a named entity of the plurality of named entities: identifying one or more textual strings associated with the named entity; calculating a significance value based at least in part on a location of the one or more textual strings associated with the named entity within the written work; determining that the named entity is included in other written works; updating the significance value for the named entity based at least in part on the inclusion of the named entity in the other written works; and selecting a primary textual string from the one or more textual strings associated with the named entity; and providing a list of at least a portion of the plurality of named entities, the list including the primary textual string and other primary textual strings for the at least the portion of the plurality of named entities and the list being sorted based at least in part on the significance value. 24. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 21 , wherein the acts further comprise: causing a display of the list of the at least the portion of the plurality of named entities on a device associated with a user; receiving, from the device associated with the user, feedback indicating that at least one named entity is more or less significant compared to a position within the list; and updating at least one significance value of the at least one named entity based on the feedback.