I believe that the problem of extracting entities from social data would be an hot research problem. Here they use naive social mining for building basic information which is than combined with machine learning techniques.
Extending the graph tech talk [HQ]
This, by the way, is a great example of the talent Microsoft lost when it hastily eliminated the Live Labs Research group. The speaker, Mukund, was at Microsoft in Live Labs Research. Now, he helping Facebook rather than Microsoft.
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