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)
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Authors
- 1. Zequn Sun (Nanjing University)
- 2. Qingheng Zhang (Nanjing University)
- 3. Wei Hu (Nanjing University)
- 4. Chengming Wang (Nanjing University)
- 5. Muhao Chen (University of California Los Angeles)
- 6. Farahnaz Akrami (University of Texas)
- 7. Chengkai Li (University of Texas)
BibTeX Citation
@article{sun_vldb20,
title = {{A Benchmarking Study of Embedding-based Entity Alignment for Knowledge Graphs}},
author = {Sun, Zequn and Zhang, Qingheng and Hu, Wei and Wang, Chengming and Chen, Muhao and Akrami, Farahnaz and Li, Chengkai},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '20},
volume = {13},
number = {11},
pages = {2326--2340},
doi = {10.14778/3407790.3407828},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3407790.3407828},
year = {2020}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 6 of 6 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4,402 | LargeEA: Aligning Entities for Large-scale Knowledge Graphs | 2022 | VLDB | 6.7232199e-05 |
| 8,441 | A Critical Re-evaluation of Neural Methods for Entity Alignment | 2022 | VLDB | 5.4247564e-05 |
| 9,063 | Deep Active Alignment of Knowledge Graph Entities and Schemata | 2023 | SIGMOD | 5.3251649e-05 |
| 10,872 | OpenMEL: Unsupervised Multimodal Entity Linking Using Noise-Free Expanded Queries and Global Coherence | 2025 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
| 11,226 | ZeroEA: A Zero-Training Entity Alignment Framework via Pre-Trained Language Model | 2024 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
| 11,678 | Structural Generalizability: The Case of Similarity Search | 2021 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | Similarity Search in High Dimensions via Hashing | 1999 | VLDB | 0.00056760516 |
| 176 | Deep Learning for Entity Matching: A Design Space Exploration | 2018 | SIGMOD | 0.00027191081 |
| 489 | Distributed Representations of Tuples for Entity Resolution | 2018 | VLDB | 0.0001761456 |
| 556 | Fast Incremental and Personalized PageRank | 2011 | VLDB | 0.00016564032 |
| 2,086 | PARIS: Probabilistic Alignment of Relations, Instances, and Schema | 2012 | VLDB | 9.1930537e-05 |
| 2,781 | Realistic Re-evaluation of Knowledge Graph Completion Methods: An Experimental Study | 2020 | SIGMOD | 8.1281896e-05 |
| 3,755 | Learning Expressive Linkage Rules using Genetic Programming | 2012 | VLDB | 7.1496482e-05 |
| 6,522 | Knowledge Verification for Long-Tail Verticals | 2017 | VLDB | 5.8518748e-05 |
| 8,372 | ALEX: Automatic Link Exploration in Linked Data | 2015 | SIGMOD | 5.4403598e-05 |
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