Named Entity Disambiguation for Archival Collections: Metadata, Wikidata, and Linked Data

Polley, K., Honick, B., Tompkins, V.T., & Qin, J. (2021). Named Entity Disambiguation for Archival Collections: Metadata, Wikidata, and Linked Data. Short paper submitted to ASIST Annual Conference.

This paper details our experimentation with one entity linking system called OpenTapioca, which was chosen for its use of Wikidata and its accessibility to librarians and archivists with minimal technical intervention. We discuss the results of using OpenTapioca for named entity disambiguation on the Belfer Cylinders Collection from the Special Collections Research Center at Syracuse University, highlighting the successes and limitations of the system and of using Wikidata as a knowledge base.