Abstract: One embodiment provides a method to retrieve information that contains name and relationship information. A computing system accepts input from a user to create a search request that contains a number of text characters. One or more of the text characters specify a name identifier, and one or more of the text characters specify a relationship to the name identifier. The computing system uses the search request to retrieve search results. Each search result contains the name identifier and also contains information representing the specified relationship to the name identifier. The computing system then displays to the user the name identifier for each search result in textual form.