Topological Features Based Entity Disambiguation

This work proposes an unsupervised topological features based entity disambiguation solution. Most existing studies leverage semantic information to resolve ambiguous references. However, the semantic information is not always accessible because of privacy or is too expensive to access. We consider the problem in a setting that only relationships between references are available. A structure similarity algorithm via random walk with restarts is proposed to measure the similarity of references. The disambiguation is regarded as a clustering problem and a family of graph walk based clustering algorithms are brought to group ambiguous references. We evaluate our solution extensively on two real datasets and show its advantage over two state-of-the-art approaches in accuracy.