Methods and apparatus are provided for multi-faceted visualization of rich text corpora. A data set comprising a plurality of entities, facets and relations is visualized by generating a visualization of a plurality of the facets in the data set, wherein the visualization indicates connections along the plurality of the facets in a single view using multi-faceted edges. The entities are instances of a particular concept, the facets are classes of entities and the relations are connections between pairs of the entities. A compound node comprises a representation of a primary entity, surrounded by representations of one or more secondary entities connected by one or more external relations. The internal relations can be represented as edges connecting two facet nodes from different compound nodes and a number of crossings of the edges can be reduced by adjusting a position order of facet nodes. The compound nodes can optionally be rotated based on, for example, a global spring force model to reduce an average length of one or more of the edges and/or to allow edge bundling.