A Benchmarking Study of Embedding-based Entity Alignment for Knowledge Graphs

Summary: Comprehensive benchmarking study of embedding-based entity alignment for knowledge graphs, surveying 23 approaches and classifying techniques. Proposes a KG sampling algorithm to generate diverse benchmarks and releases an open-source library of 12 methods with extensive experiments, highlighting strengths and gaps. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 12119
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2020
Pagerank: 6.6332294e-05
Overall Rank: 3,915 | 72.77%
DOI: 10.14778/3407790.3407828

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
4,355	LargeEA: Aligning Entities for Large-scale Knowledge Graphs	2022	VLDB	6.259483e-05
8,436	A Critical Re-evaluation of Neural Methods for Entity Alignment	2022	VLDB	4.5138915e-05
8,908	Deep Active Alignment of Knowledge Graph Entities and Schemata	2023	SIGMOD	4.427232e-05
10,615	OpenMEL: Unsupervised Multimodal Entity Linking Using Noise-Free Expanded Queries and Global Coherence	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
11,015	ZeroEA: A Zero-Training Entity Alignment Framework via Pre-Trained Language Model	2024	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
11,480	Structural Generalizability: The Case of Similarity Search	2021	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05

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Showing 9 of 9 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
34	Similarity Search in High Dimensions via Hashing	1999	VLDB	0.00076637636
300	Deep Learning for Entity Matching: A Design Space Exploration	2018	SIGMOD	0.00028441466
486	Fast Incremental and Personalized PageRank	2011	VLDB	0.00022068545
754	Distributed Representations of Tuples for Entity Resolution	2018	VLDB	0.00017117211
1,628	PARIS: Probabilistic Alignment of Relations, Instances, and Schema	2012	VLDB	0.00011085347
1,966	Realistic Re-evaluation of Knowledge Graph Completion Methods: An Experimental Study	2020	SIGMOD	9.9175408e-05
3,744	Learning Expressive Linkage Rules using Genetic Programming	2012	VLDB	6.7932071e-05
6,557	Knowledge Verification for Long-Tail Verticals	2017	VLDB	5.0124455e-05
8,006	ALEX: Automatic Link Exploration in Linked Data	2015	SIGMOD	4.6080343e-05

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