What is Entity Linking?
Tying entities to a unique entry in a knowledge base is an important step in the construction of many machine learning text algorithms. Accurate entity linking allows you to build models that analyze text in depth, show search results with pinpoint accuracy, and provide exemplary customer service – no matter how your customers phrase their requests.
At Lionbridge, we’ve spent decades developing our industry-leading entity linking services. From our custom-built platform to our pool of annotators in 300+ global languages, we have all the tools you need to accurately link volumes of text to your knowledge base of choice.
Why Lionbridge?
Multilingual Services
From our first language to our 300th, we’re renowned for excellence in every text-based task we take on.
Expertise
Our annotators have years of experience in identifying, tagging, and coreferencing unique entities.
Custom Workflows
Our workbench has the flexibility to accommodate your project’s specialist requirements – just like our huge crowd of annotators.
Our Entity Linking Services
End-to-End Entity Linking
We’re experienced in turning raw text data into comprehensive entity linking datasets. Our workbench is built to handle every step of the process, from cleaning and preparing your data to extracting and linking your entities. Whether you have nothing but big ambitions or pages of detailed guidelines to fulfill, we can build datasets of any size that will help you to improve your algorithm.
Entity Disambiguation
If you’re just looking for annotators to create the perfect ground truth data, we’re here to help. Our crowd is able to link entities in multiple documents and languages to one single knowledge base. Whether you want wikification or disambiguation to a custom database, our flexible processes allow you to create comprehensive links to the knowledge base that suits you.
How it Works

1. Project set-up
Our team work with you to develop a custom solution based on your project’s requirements, goals, and timeline.


2. Production
Our crowd of multilingual experts get to work linking your data to your knowledge base.


3. Delivery
Our project management team check, package and format the data before sending it to you for final approval.

Our Entity Linking Solution at a Glance
Unique Knowledge Bases
Link entities to your knowledge base of choice, whether that’s Wikidata or your own custom database.
No Mentions
Ask our annotators to manually add unique identifiers for entities which are absent from your knowledge base.
Ambiguity
Use our language specialism to find all ambiguous instances of your entities across texts in 300+ languages.
Name Variations
Achieve a high level of coreference accuracy for each of your entities, despite any spelling errors, abbreviations, or aliases.
Scalability
Build datasets for named entity linking across multiple documents and languages using our global workforce.
YOU’RE IN GOOD COMPANY
Entity Linking Pricing
Thanks to our platform, we’re able to streamline much of the entity linking process – and offer one of the most cost-effective entity linking solutions in the industry.
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Multilingual Entity Linking Services
Lionbridge’s linguistic background makes us the developer’s choice for entity linking services in over 300 languages. Some of our most popular languages include:
- Chinese entity linking
- Dutch entity linking
- French entity linking
- German entity linking
- Italian entity linking
- Japanese entity linking
- Portuguese entity linking
- Spanish entity linking