Think Before You Link: Rarity, Reasoning, and Retrieval in Multilingual Entity Linking

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arXiv:2609.10745v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal entity linking grounds entity mentions in text and images to knowledge-base entries. These systems degrade on rare entities, but prior work measures rarity primarily through popularity-based metrics such as pageviews. We broaden this view using knowledge-graph structural metrics that capture how well an entity is documented and connected. These metrics identify many rare entities that popularity metrics miss. Across the resulting rare-en