{
  "altLabels": [
    "Entity Disambiguation"
  ],
  "definition": "Mapping an entity mention in a query, document, or other text to a canonical entity in a knowledge base, catalog, graph, or other authority.",
  "distinctions": [
    {
      "reason": "Entity linking resolves mentions to entities; entity search retrieves entities or entity-related information.",
      "statement": "Entity Linking is not Entity Search.",
      "target": "entity-search",
      "targetLabel": "Entity Search",
      "targetUri": "https://id.searchplex.net/entity-search/"
    },
    {
      "reason": "Named entity recognition identifies mentions and types; entity linking maps a mention to a canonical entity.",
      "statement": "Entity Linking is not Named Entity Recognition.",
      "target": "named-entity-recognition",
      "targetLabel": "Named Entity Recognition",
      "targetUri": "https://id.searchplex.net/named-entity-recognition/"
    }
  ],
  "id": "entity-linking",
  "kind": "Task",
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/",
  "links": [
    {
      "label": "Entity Linking and Named Entity Disambiguation",
      "type": "canonicalSurvey",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.2200/S00494ED1V01Y201305HLT020"
    }
  ],
  "modifiedAt": "2026-09-14T06:43:46Z",
  "prefLabel": "Entity Linking",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "Searchplex",
    "url": "https://searchplex.net/"
  },
  "relations": [
    {
      "note": "Entity linking resolves mentions to entities; entity search retrieves entities or entity-related information.",
      "target": "entity-search",
      "type": "notEquivalentTo"
    },
    {
      "note": "Named entity recognition identifies mentions and types; entity linking maps a mention to a canonical entity.",
      "target": "named-entity-recognition",
      "type": "notEquivalentTo"
    },
    {
      "note": "Often used in query understanding when recognized query mentions must be mapped to catalog, graph, or knowledge-base entities.",
      "target": "query-understanding",
      "type": "partOf"
    },
    {
      "target": "entity-search",
      "type": "related"
    },
    {
      "target": "named-entity-recognition",
      "type": "related"
    }
  ],
  "representations": {
    "html": "https://id.searchplex.net/entity-linking/",
    "json": "https://id.searchplex.net/entity-linking.json",
    "jsonld": "https://id.searchplex.net/entity-linking.jsonld"
  },
  "scheme": "https://id.searchplex.net/scheme/",
  "scopeNote": "Entity linking is the canonical-resolution step. Named entity recognition identifies and types mentions; entity linking resolves those mentions to specific entities.",
  "status": "published",
  "terms": [
    {
      "community": "general",
      "label": "Entity Resolution",
      "usage": "nearSynonym"
    }
  ],
  "uri": "https://id.searchplex.net/entity-linking/"
}