Meta Platforms, Inc.
Ranking of Place-Entities on Online Social Networks

Abstract:

In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a query by a first user from a client system of the first user by computing devices of an online social network, accessing a social graph of the online social network, the social graph including multiple nodes and multiple edges connecting the nodes, each node corresponding to an entity associated with the online social network, identifying multiple entities matching the query, each identified entity having a duplication-value with respect to a canonical-entity, the duplication-values being based on a name similarity between the identified entity and the canonical-entity, suppressing one or more entities of the identified entities based on the duplication-value of the entity and social-graph information associated with the entity, and sending a search-results page to the client system for display to the first user, wherein the search-results page comprises references to one or more non-suppressed entities of the identified entities.