TEA: Time-aware Entity Alignment in Knowledge Graphs

Yu Liu, Wen Hua, Kexuan Xin, Saeid Hosseini, Xiaofang Zhou

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Abstract

Entity alignment (EA) aims to identify equivalent entities between knowledge graphs (KGs), which is a key technique to improve the coverage of existing KGs. Current EA models largely ignore the importance of time information contained in KGs and treat relational facts or attribute values of entities as time-invariant. However, real-world entities could evolve over time, making the knowledge of the aligned entities very different in multiple KGs. This may cause incorrect matching between KGs if such entity dynamics is ignored. In this paper, we propose a time-aware entity alignment (TEA) model that discovers the entity evolving behaviour by exploring the time contexts in KGs and aggregates various contextual information to make the alignment decision. In particular, we address two main challenges in the TEA model: 1) How to identify highly-correlated temporal facts; 2) How to capture entity dynamics and incorporate it to learn a more informative entity representation for the alignment task. Experiments on real-world datasets1 verify the superiority of our TEA model over state-of-the-art entity aligners.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationACM Web Conference 2023 - Proceedings of the World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2023
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages2591-2599
Number of pages9
ISBN (Electronic)9781450394161
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 30 Apr 2023
Event2023 World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2023 - Austin, United States
Duration: 30 Apr 20234 May 2023

Publication series

NameACM Web Conference 2023 - Proceedings of the World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2023

Conference

Conference2023 World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2023
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityAustin
Period30/04/234/05/23

Keywords

  • context evolving
  • Entity alignment
  • knowledge graph
  • predicate clustering
  • time context encoder

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Information Systems
  • Artificial Intelligence

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