What is one way to find related names using the web?

Question

I am dealing with name disambiguation issues. I\'m wondering if there\'s a way to find all common usages of a word by using the web to \'crowdsource\' those related names.

Answer 1

You can use FreeBase. For example the 'Univerisity of California, Berkeley' page : https://www.freebase.com/m/02zd460

has a field : /common/topic/alias

in which it lists different common names for this university, although some of them might be noisy:

UC Berkeley
Cal
Università della California (Berkeley) it
Universiteit van Californië - Berkeley nl
Universitato de Kalifornio, Berkeley eo
Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley Campus
University of California, Berkeley main campus
Berkeley Üniversitesi tr
California tr
加州大學柏克萊分校 zh-CN
Університет Каліфорнії uk
加州大学伯克利分校 zh-CN
Калифорнийски университет, Бъркли bg
University of California, Berkeley pl
Universiteit van Californië - Berkeley nl
Universitat de Califòrnia a Berkeley ca
Πανεπιστήμιο της Καλιφόρνιας, Μπέρκλεϋ el
加州大學柏克萊分校 zh-TW