diff --git a/aio/tools/transforms/angular-base-package/index.js b/aio/tools/transforms/angular-base-package/index.js
index 1b72f54640..b94b79d100 100644
--- a/aio/tools/transforms/angular-base-package/index.js
+++ b/aio/tools/transforms/angular-base-package/index.js
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ module.exports = new Package('angular-base', [
   .factory(require('./readers/json'))
   .factory(require('./services/copyFolder'))
   .factory(require('./services/filterPipes'))
+  .factory(require('./services/filterAmbiguousDirectiveAliases'))
   .factory(require('./services/getImageDimensions'))
 
   .factory(require('./post-processors/add-image-dimensions'))
@@ -127,9 +128,9 @@ module.exports = new Package('angular-base', [
   })
 
 
-  .config(function(postProcessHtml, addImageDimensions, autoLinkCode, filterPipes) {
+  .config(function(postProcessHtml, addImageDimensions, autoLinkCode, filterPipes, filterAmbiguousDirectiveAliases) {
     addImageDimensions.basePath = path.resolve(AIO_PATH, 'src');
-    autoLinkCode.customFilters = [filterPipes];
+    autoLinkCode.customFilters = [filterPipes, filterAmbiguousDirectiveAliases];
     postProcessHtml.plugins = [
       require('./post-processors/autolink-headings'),
       addImageDimensions,
diff --git a/aio/tools/transforms/angular-base-package/services/filterAmbiguousDirectiveAliases.js b/aio/tools/transforms/angular-base-package/services/filterAmbiguousDirectiveAliases.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c599230c53
--- /dev/null
+++ b/aio/tools/transforms/angular-base-package/services/filterAmbiguousDirectiveAliases.js
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+
+/**
+ * This service is used by the autoLinkCode post-processor to filter out ambiguous directive
+ * docs where the matching word is a directive selector.
+ * E.g. `ngModel`, which is a selector for a number of directives, where we are only really
+ * interested in the `NgModel` class.
+ */
+module.exports = function filterAmbiguousDirectiveAliases() {
+  return (docs, words, index) => {
+    const word = words[index];
+
+    // we are only interested if there are multiple matching docs
+    if (docs.length > 1) {
+      if (docs.every(doc =>
+        // We are only interested if they are all either directives or components
+        (doc.docType === 'directive' || doc.docType === 'component') &&
+        // and the matching word is in the selector for all of them
+        doc[doc.docType + 'Options'].selector.indexOf(word) != -1
+      )) {
+        // find the directive whose class name matches the word (case-insensitive)
+        return docs.filter(doc => doc.name.toLowerCase() === word.toLowerCase());
+      }
+    }
+    return docs;
+  };
+};
diff --git a/aio/tools/transforms/angular-base-package/services/filterAmbiguousDirectiveAliases.spec.js b/aio/tools/transforms/angular-base-package/services/filterAmbiguousDirectiveAliases.spec.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..14564898bb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/aio/tools/transforms/angular-base-package/services/filterAmbiguousDirectiveAliases.spec.js
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+const filterAmbiguousDirectiveAliases = require('./filterAmbiguousDirectiveAliases')();
+
+const words = ['Http', 'ngModel', 'NgModel', 'NgControlStatus'];
+
+describe('filterAmbiguousDirectiveAliases(docs, words, index)', () => {
+  it('should not try to filter the docs, if the docs are not all directives or components', () => {
+    const docs = [
+      { docType: 'class', name: 'Http' },
+      { docType: 'directive', name: 'NgModel', directiveOptions: { selector: '[ngModel]' } },
+      { docType: 'component', name: 'NgModel', componentOptions: { selector: '[ngModel]' } }
+    ];
+    // take a copy to prove `docs` was not modified
+    const filteredDocs = docs.slice(0);
+    expect(filterAmbiguousDirectiveAliases(docs, words, 1)).toEqual(filteredDocs);
+    expect(filterAmbiguousDirectiveAliases(docs, words, 2)).toEqual(filteredDocs);
+  });
+
+  describe('(where all the docs are components or directives', () => {
+    describe('and do not all contain the matching word in their selector)', () => {
+      it('should not try to filter the docs', () => {
+        const docs = [
+          { docType: 'directive', name: 'NgModel', ['directiveOptions']: { selector: '[ngModel]' } },
+          { docType: 'component', name: 'NgControlStatus', ['componentOptions']: { selector: '[ngControlStatus]' } }
+        ];
+        // take a copy to prove `docs` was not modified
+        const filteredDocs = docs.slice(0);
+        expect(filterAmbiguousDirectiveAliases(docs, words, 1)).toEqual(filteredDocs);
+        expect(filterAmbiguousDirectiveAliases(docs, words, 2)).toEqual(filteredDocs);
+
+        // Also test that the check is case-sensitive
+        docs[1].componentOptions.selector = '[ngModel]';
+        filteredDocs[1].componentOptions.selector = '[ngModel]';
+        expect(filterAmbiguousDirectiveAliases(docs, words, 2)).toEqual(filteredDocs);
+      });
+    });
+
+    describe('and do all contain the matching word in there selector)', () => {
+      it('should filter out docs whose class name is not (case-insensitively) equal to the matching word', () => {
+        const docs = [
+          { docType: 'directive', name: 'NgModel', ['directiveOptions']: { selector: '[ngModel],[ngControlStatus]' } },
+          { docType: 'component', name: 'NgControlStatus', ['componentOptions']: { selector: '[ngModel],[ngControlStatus]' } }
+        ];
+        const filteredDocs = [
+          { docType: 'directive', name: 'NgModel', ['directiveOptions']: { selector: '[ngModel],[ngControlStatus]' } }
+        ];
+        expect(filterAmbiguousDirectiveAliases(docs, words, 1)).toEqual(filteredDocs);
+      });
+    });
+  });
+});