Meta Platforms, Inc.
Suppression and Deduplication of Place-Entities on Online Social Networks

Abstract:

In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, from a client system, a search query, identifying a plurality of place-entity nodes matching the search query, determining that one or more of the identified place-entity nodes are low-quality place-entity nodes based on the place names of the place-entity nodes having anomalous language characteristics, filtering the plurality of identified place-entity nodes to exclude the determined low-quality place-entity nodes, and generating one or more search results corresponding to the plurality of filtered place-entity nodes.