EntityRank: Searching Entities Directly and Holistically

Summary: EntityRank proposes direct entity search and a probabilistic ranking framework that ranks entities, not pages. It formalizes an Impression Model and fuses local and global signals to search holistically on a 2TB Web corpus. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 9592
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2007
Pagerank: 0.00013720706
Overall Rank: 1,140 | 92.08%
DOI: -

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 8 of 8 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
364	Annotating and Searching Web Tables Using Entities, Types and Relationships	2010	VLDB	0.00025637562
2,319	Expressive and Flexible Access to Web-Extracted Data: A Keyword-based Structured Query Language	2010	SIGMOD	9.0387108e-05
5,652	From Information to Knowledge: Harvesting Entities and Relationships from Web Sources	2010	PODS	5.3903671e-05
6,576	Supporting Keyword Search in Product Database: A Probabilistic Approach	2013	VLDB	5.0046315e-05
7,326	Answering Web Queries Using Structured Data Sources	2009	SIGMOD	4.7612871e-05
11,956	MRCSI: Compressing and Searching String Collections with Multiple References	2015	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
12,244	DoCQS: A Prototype System for Supporting Data-oriented Content Query	2010	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
12,300	Skip-and-Prune: Cosine-based Top-K Query Processing for Efficient Context-Sensitive Document Retrieval	2009	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 5 of 5 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,395	Structured Querying of Web Text: A Technical Challenge	2007	CIDR	0.00012207039
1,734	Entity Search Engine: Towards Agile Best-Effort Information Integration over the Web	2007	CIDR	0.00010723542
2,012	DB&IR: Both Sides Now (Extended Abstract)	2007	SIGMOD	9.7951657e-05
3,341	Avatar Semantic Search: A Database Approach to Information Retrieval	2006	SIGMOD	7.1972915e-05
13,601	Supporting Entity Search: A Large-Scale Prototype Search Engine	2007	SIGMOD	-

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