Social networks have recently garnered considerable interest. With the intention of utilizing social networks for the Semantic
Web, several studies have examined automatic extraction of social networks. However, most methods have addressed extraction
of the strength of relations. Our goal is extracting the underlying relations between entities that are embedded in social
networks. To this end, we propose a method that automatically extracts labels that describe relations among entities. Fundamentally,
the method clusters similar entity pairs according to their collective contexts in Web documents. The descriptive labels for
relations are obtained from results of clustering. The proposed method is entirely unsupervised and is easily incorporated
into existing social network extraction methods. Our method also contributes to ontology population by elucidating relations
between instances in social networks. Our experiments conducted on entities in political social networks achieved clustering
with high precision and recall. We extracted appropriate relation labels to represent the entities.