Global WordNet Association Interlingual Index

This is a manually constructed link between Wikipedia/DBpedia and the set of instances in Princeton WordNet 3.1. This covers all terms in Princeton WordNet which have an instance_hypernym relation. The links in this resource are of four forms:

• skos:exactMatch: The WordNet synset and Wikipedia article exactly describe the same entity.
• skos:broadMatch: The DBpedia describes several things, of which the entity described by the WordNet synset is only one of. An example of this is the Wikipedia article for the Wright Brothers, which is linked broader to two WordNet synsets for each brother. In this case, Wikipedia redirects "Orville Wright" and "Wilbur Wright" to this article.
• skos:narrowMatch: The opposite of 'broad', i.e., the WordNet synset describes multiple Wikipedia articles. An example is Rameses, Ramesses, Ramses (i96663) defined as "any of 12 kings of ancient Egypt between 1315 and 1090 BC", while each is a separate Wikipedia article.
• skos:closeMatch The Wikipedia article does not describe the WordNet synset but something intrinsically linked to it, and the lemmas of the WordNet synset have redirects to this article. For example Hoover, William Hoover, William Henry Hoover (i95579) is mapped to "The Hoover Company" describing the company he founded. Wikipedia also redirect "William Hoover" to this article.

For more information or to cite this work please refer to

"Mapping WordNet Instances to Wikipedia." John P. McCrae. In _Proceedings of the 2018 Global WordNet Conference.