SPHINX: A System for Metapath-based Entity Exploration in Heterogeneous Information Networks

Summary: SPHINX enables metapath-based entity exploration in heterogeneous information networks via views from automatic and user-defined metapaths. It ranks and compares entities across views, incorporating spatial/temporal properties, with a web UI for view definition, indexing, and result visualization. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 12162
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2020
Pagerank: 4.1945683e-05
Overall Rank: 11,615 | 19.20%
DOI: 10.14778/3415478.3415507

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768	PathSim: Meta Path-Based Top-K Similarity Search in Heterogeneous Information Networks	2011	VLDB	0.00016919065

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