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    "Entity-Oriented Search",
    "Entity Retrieval"
  ],
  "definition": "A retrieval task focused on finding entities, entity lists, or entity-related information that satisfies an information need.",
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      "type": "related"
    }
  ],
  "id": "entity-search",
  "kind": "Task",
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/",
  "links": [
    {
      "label": "TREC Entity Track",
      "type": "officialHomepage",
      "url": "https://trec.nist.gov/data/entity.html"
    }
  ],
  "modifiedAt": "2026-09-12T22:23:29Z",
  "prefLabel": "Entity Search",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "Searchplex",
    "url": "https://searchplex.net/"
  },
  "relations": [
    {
      "target": "retrieval",
      "type": "broader"
    },
    {
      "note": "Entity search targets entities or entity attributes; ad hoc retrieval is typically framed as retrieving relevant documents or passages for a topic.",
      "target": "ad-hoc-retrieval",
      "type": "notEquivalentTo"
    },
    {
      "note": "Semantic search is a broad meaning-oriented search goal; entity search is a task centered on entities.",
      "target": "semantic-search",
      "type": "notEquivalentTo"
    },
    {
      "target": "semantic-search",
      "type": "related"
    }
  ],
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  },
  "scheme": "https://id.searchplex.net/scheme/",
  "scopeNote": "Entity search is broader than retrieving documents that mention an entity. TREC Entity Track tasks included entity-oriented search on Web data, such as finding entities and properties of entities.",
  "status": "published",
  "uri": "https://id.searchplex.net/entity-search/"
}