Linking Temporal Records for Profiling Entities

Abstract

To harness the rich amount of information available on the Web today, many organizations start to aggregate public (and private) data to derive new knowledge bases. A fundamental challenge in constructing an accurate integrated knowledge repository from different data sources is to understand how facts across different sources are related to one another over time. This challenge, referred to as the temporal record linkage problem, goes far beyond the traditional record linkage problem as it requires a fine-grained analysis of how two facts are temporally related if they both refer to the same entity.