Non-named Entities - The Silent Majority

Pierre-Henri Paris, Fabian M. Suchanek

Abstract: Knowledge Bases (KBs) usually contain named entities. However, the majority of entities in natural language text are not named. In this position paper, we first study the nature of these entities. Then we explain how they could be represented in KBs. Finally, we discuss open challenges for adding non-named entities systematically to KBs.