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).
@article{arxiv.2111.11372,
title = {Namesakes: Ambiguously Named Entities from Wikipedia and News},
author = {Oleg Vasilyev and Aysu Altun and Nidhi Vyas and Vedant Dharnidharka and Erika Lam and John Bohannon},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.11372},
year = {2021}
}