Entity Extraction from the Web with WebKnox

Abstract This paper describes a system for entity extraction from the web. The sys-tem uses three different extraction techniques which are tightly coupled with mech-anisms for retrieving entity rich web pages. The main contributions of this paper are a new entity retrieval approach, a comparison of different extraction techniques and a more precise entity extraction algorithm. The presented approach allows to extract domain-independent information from the web, requiring only little human effort