Linking entity mentions in text to entries in a knowledge base.
This concept is essential for understanding natural language processing and forms a key part of modern AI systems.
Related Concepts
- Named Entity Recognition
- Knowledge Graph
- NLP
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Entity Linking
Linking entity mentions in text to entries in a knowledge base.
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- Natural Language Processing ✓ understood
The field of AI that lets computers read, interpret, translate and generate human language, from spam filters and search to chatbots.
- Token ✓ understood
The basic unit of text that a language model processes, typically representing a word, subword, or character. Tokens are the fundamental building blocks for LLM input and output.
- Named Entity Recognition ✓ understood
Identifying and classifying named entities (people, organizations, locations) in text into predefined categories.
- Entity Linking · you are here ✓ understood
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Foundations Knowledge Graph A structured representation of knowledge as entities and their relationships, used for reasoning and information retrieval. Language & LLMs Coreference Resolution Identifying all expressions in text that refer to the same entity (e.g., linking pronouns to nouns). Language & LLMs Relation Extraction Identifying semantic relationships between entities in text. Language & LLMs Information Extraction Automatically extracting structured information from unstructured text.