Miklos, ZoltanBonvin, NicolasBouquet, PaoloCatasta, MicheleCordioli, DanieleFankhauser, PeterGaugaz, JulienIoannou, EkateriniKoshutanski, HristoMana, AntonioNiederee, ClaudiaPalpanas, ThemisStoermer, Heiko2010-02-282010-02-282010-02-28201010.1007/978-3-642-13094-6_25https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/47746WOS:000279591200025We present the Entity Name System (ENS), an enabling infrastructure, which can host descriptions of named entities and provide unique identifiers, on large-scale. In this way, it opens new perspectives to realize entity-oriented, rather than keyword-oriented, Web information systems. We describe the architecture and the functionality of the ENS, along with tools, which all contribute to realize the Web of entitiesentityWebunique identifierNCCR-MICSNCCR-MICS/ESDMtext::conference output::conference proceedings::conference paper