Entities & Semantic SEO
Entity Disambiguation
The process of determining which specific entity a name or term refers to when multiple entities share similar names.
CurrentLast updated: 2026-09-16
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Entities & Semantic SEOEntity disambiguation is the process of determining which specific entity a name or term refers to when multiple entities share similar names. For example, "Apple" could refer to the fruit or the company. Search engines use context, structured data, and knowledge graph data to disambiguate entities.
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