Entity Reference Relationship

An Entity Reference Relationship is a reference relationship from an entity referencer to a referent entity.

• Context:
  • It can range from being an Ambiguous Entity Reference Relation (Certainty < 1) to being an Unambiguous Entity Reference Relation (Certainty ≡ 1).
  • It can be expressed in an Artifact.
• Example(s):
  • The mention “Gabor Melli” is in an entity reference relation with a specific human.
  • The mention “Pi” is in an entity reference relation with a specific concept.
  • a Class Entity Reference, such as the mention of “people”.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Relation Reference Relationship.
• See: Class Entity Reference Relation.

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References

2009

• WordNet.
  • reference : the relation between a word or phrase and the object or idea it refers to; "he argued that reference is a consequence of conditioned reflexes"
• (Wikipedia, 2009) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reference
  • In general, a reference is a relation between objects in which one object designates by linking to another object. …

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