DBScholar

Back to papers

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
12350
Venue
VLDB
Year
2020
Pagerank
5.093636e-05
Overall Rank
11,810 | 18.98%
DOI
10.14778/3415478.3415507

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

No non-self incoming citations found for this paper in this database.

Authors

BibTeX Citation

@article{chatzopoulos_vldb20,
        title = {{SPHINX: A System for Metapath-based Entity Exploration in Heterogeneous Information Networks}},
        author = {Chatzopoulos, Serafeim and Patroumpas, Kostas and Zeakis, Alexandros and Vergoulis, Thanasis and Skoutas, Dimitrios},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '20},
        volume = {13},
        number = {12},
        pages = {2913--2916},
        doi = {10.14778/3415478.3415507},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3415478.3415507},
        year = {2020}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 0 of 0 citing papers.

Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
Previous Page 1 / 1 Next

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 cited papers.

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

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
731 PathSim: Meta Path-Based Top-K Similarity Search in Heterogeneous Information Networks 2011 VLDB 0.00014537965
Previous Page 1 / 1 Next

Semantically Similar Papers

# Overall Rank Paper Year Venue
1 7,399 ExRank: An Exploratory Ranking Interface 2016 VLDB
2 10,229 Efficient Meta-subgraph Instance Search over Large Heterogeneous Information Networks 2026 SIGMOD
3 10,089 VINCENT: Towards Efficient Exploratory Subgraph Search in Graph Databases 2022 VLDB
4 2,609 The SphereSearch Engine for Unified Ranked Retrieval of Heterogeneous XML and Web Documents 2005 VLDB
5 4,579 Cohesive Subgraph Search over Big Heterogeneous Information Networks: Applications, Challenges, and Solutions 2021 SIGMOD
6 1,647 Effective and Efficient Community Search over Large Heterogeneous Information Networks 2020 VLDB
7 8,956 A Probabilistic Model for Linking Named Entities in Web Text with Heterogeneous Information Networks 2014 SIGMOD
8 11,880 PivotE: Revealing and Visualizing the Underlying Entity Structures for Exploration 2019 VLDB
9 7,348 Heterogeneous Information Networks: the Past, the Present, and the Future 2022 VLDB
10 731 PathSim: Meta Path-Based Top-K Similarity Search in Heterogeneous Information Networks 2011 VLDB