Techniques for generating messages to entities referenced in a messaging thread

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

receiving a partial entity-reference invocation in a message thread display on a client device in response to detecting an entity-reference invocation symbol in a text-entry field;

suggesting, based on the partial entity reference invocation, one or more entity-reference invocations referencing entities not participating in the messaging interaction;

receiving a user selection of one of the one or more suggested entity-reference invocations;

generating a message to the entity referenced in the selected entity-reference invocation; and

sending the message to a messaging system.

2. The method of claim 1 , the one or more suggested entity-reference invocations referencing two or more of a user entity, a messaging bot entity, an article entity, a media entity, a calendar event entity, and a place entity.

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

receiving the partial entity-reference invocation in response to detecting one of an entity name and a partial entity name in a text-entry field.

4. The method of claim 1 , the message thread display for a group message thread, the one or more suggested entity-reference invocations referencing one or more user entities, wherein in the one or more user entities are ranked according to one or more of relationship information, group-message-thread participation recency, messaging frequency, and referencing frequency.

5. The method of claim 1 , the entity-reference invocation associated with an invoking user account, the one or more suggested entity-reference invocations ranked according to predicative learning, the predicative learning based on an entity-reference history for the invoking user account.

6. An apparatus, comprising:

a processor circuit on a device;

a user interface component operative on the processor circuit to:

receive a partial entity-reference invocation in a message thread display on a client device in response to detecting an entity-reference invocation symbol in a text-entry field;

suggest, based on the partial entity-reference invocation, one or more entity-reference invocations referencing entities not participating in the messaging interaction; and

receive a user selection of one of the one or more suggested entity-reference invocations; and

a client messaging component operative on the processor circuit to:

generate a message to the entity referenced in the selected entity-reference invocation; and

send the message to a messaging system.

7. The apparatus of claim 6 , the one or more suggested entity-reference invocations referencing two or more of a user entity, a messaging bot entity, an article entity, a media entity, a calendar event entity, and a place entity.

8. The apparatus of claim 6 , further comprising:

the user interface component operative to receive the partial entity-reference invocation in response to detecting one of an entity name and a partial entity name in a text-entry field.

9. The apparatus of claim 6 , the message thread display for a group message thread, the one or more suggested entity-reference invocations referencing one or more user entities, wherein in the one or more user entities are ranked according to one or more of relationship information, group-message-thread participation recency, messaging frequency, and referencing frequency.

10. The apparatus of claim 6 , the entity-reference invocation associated with an invoking user account, the one or more suggested entity-reference invocations ranked according to predicative learning, the predicative learning based on an entity-reference history for the invoking user account.

11. At least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions that, when executed, cause a system to:

receive a partial entity-reference invocation in a message thread display on a client device in response to detecting an entity-reference invocation symbol in a text-entry field;

suggest, based on the partial entity reference invocation, one or more entity-reference invocations referencing entities not participating in the messaging interaction;

receive a user selection of one of the one or more suggested entity-reference invocations;

generate a message to the entity referenced in the selected entity-reference invocation; and

send the message to a messaging system.

12. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 11 , the one or more suggested entity-reference invocations referencing two or more of a user entity, a messaging bot entity, an article entity, a media entity, a calendar event entity, and a place entity.

13. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 11 , comprising further instructions that, when executed, cause a system to:

receive the partial entity-reference invocation in response to detecting one of an entity name in the text-entry field and a partial entity name in the text-entry field.

14. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 11 , the message thread display for a group message thread, the one or more suggested entity-reference invocations referencing one or more user entities, wherein in the one or more user entities are ranked according to one or more of relationship information, group-message-thread participation recency, messaging frequency, and referencing frequency.

15. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 11 , the entity-reference invocation associated with an invoking user account, the one or more suggested entity-reference invocations ranked according to predicative learning, the predicative learning based on an entity-reference history for the invoking user account.