Cudré-Mauroux, PhilippeHaghani, ParisaJost, MichaelAberer, Karlde Meer, Hermann2009-05-202009-05-202009-05-20200910.1145/1526709.1526789https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/40189We tackle the problem of disambiguating entities on the Web. We propose a user-driven scheme where graphs of entities -- represented by globally identifiable declarative artifacts -- self-organize in a dynamic and probabilistic manner. Our solution has the following two desirable properties: i) it lets end-users freely define associations between arbitrary entities and ii) it probabilistically infers entity relationships based on uncertain links using constraint-satisfaction mechanisms. We outline the interface between our scheme and the current data Web, and show how higher-layer applications can take advantage of our approach to enhance search and update of information relating to online entities. We describe a decentralized infrastructure supporting efficient and scalable entity disambiguation and demonstrate the practicability of our approach in a deployment over several hundreds of machines.entity disambiguationtext::conference output::conference proceedings::conference paper