Namesakes: Ambiguously Named Entities from Wikipedia and News
This dataset addresses the problem of entity ambiguity in named entity linking for researchers, though it is incremental as it builds on existing data sources.
The authors introduced Namesakes, a dataset of 58,862 mentions of 4,148 ambiguously named entities from Wikipedia and news articles, aimed at establishing challenging benchmarks for named entity linking.
We present Namesakes, a dataset of ambiguously named entities obtained from English-language Wikipedia and news articles. It consists of 58862 mentions of 4148 unique entities and their namesakes: 1000 mentions from news, 28843 from Wikipedia articles about the entity, and 29019 Wikipedia backlink mentions. Namesakes should be helpful in establishing challenging benchmarks for the task of named entity linking (NEL).