Pretrained Entity Linking model for Wikipedia/WikiData

Question

I have some 34000 restaurant reviews in English to perform entity linking on and I'm looking for some scalable solution.

Is there some pretrained model for entity linking to Wikipedi/WikiData KB?

• Spacy recently started to support Entity Linking 1,2,3 but they do not provide pretrained model for that and some people report training takes at least a week.
• Wikifier has a pretrained model that can be used for entity linking via REST service for that but I don't know what's their Rate Limit for my number of texts and how it scales. Hence, I would prefer offline solution.

Answer 1

There are two implementations, Illinois Wikifier 1.0 and 2.0 available for download here, described in the following publications

• Local and Global Algorithms for Disambiguation to Wikipedia Lev Ratinov and Dan Roth and Doug Downey and Mike Anderson, ACL - 2011

• Relational Inference for Wikification, Xiao Cheng and Dan Rothm, EMNLP - 2013

I've tried the first one and got some good results. Its' definitely not production-ready software: sometimes, the memory problems accumulate resulting in Java heap space issues, but I was able to add possibility to resume failing tasks and it works great now.