&gt; How is a search engine supposed to make those connections?<p>I can&#x27;t tell you how exactly, but if current word embeddings can do stuff like &quot;Paris - France + England = London&quot;, I don&#x27;t see why future systems shouldn&#x27;t be able to resolve the relationships between institutions, people and publications you mention, in a similar fashion. I am not saying that it will be easy, your example requires much more &quot;one-shot learning&quot;, but I could in principle see how an automated system might do it.