entity linking — mention → candidates → disambiguated KB id
input
"Jordan scored 45 points against the Lakers last night."
candidate generation (alias-index lookup for "Jordan")
Q41421
Michael Jordan
Q810
Jordan (country)
Q254110
Michael B. Jordan
Q3308285
Michael I. Jordan (ML)
disambiguation — score each candidate against context
score = Jaccard(context, description) + 0.1 × P(entity | "Jordan")
Q41421
score 0.109
basketball match
Q810
Lakers not in country desc
Q254110
no film keywords in context
Q3308285
no ML keywords in context
top score wins → Q41421 (Michael Jordan, basketball) — output linked to Wikidata