Suggestions for fallback social contacts for assistant systems

One or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media embodying software that is operable when executed to:

• receive, by the client system, a user input from the first user of an online social network, wherein the user input is associated with a subject and an intent;
• determine whether one or more agents associated with the intent are able to resolve the user input;
• identify, responsive to determining that the one or more agents are not able to resolve the user input, one or more entities related to the subject, each identified entity being connected to the first user via the online social network;
• and
• present, at the client system, one or more recommendations to the first user corresponding to the one or more entities.

A system comprising:

• one or more processors;
• and a non-transitory memory coupled to the processors comprising instructions executable by the processors, the processors operable when executing the instructions to:
• receive, by the client system, a user input from the first user of an online social network, wherein the user input is associated with a subject and an intent;
• determine whether one or more agents associated with the intent are able to resolve the user input;
• identify, responsive to determining that the one or more agents are not able to resolve the user input, one or more entities related to the subject, each identified entity being connected to the first user via the online social network;
• and
• present, at the client system, one or more recommendations to the first user corresponding to the one or more entities.