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Coreference Resolution

The linking of named entities mentioned in a text (for example, "Katherine Johnson" to other mentions of the same entity whether as nouns "the mathematician (called, nominal references), pronouns "she, her (called, pronominal references), or other named entity references "Johnson elsewhere in a document. The linking of the same entity can be within a single document (in-doc coreference resolution) or in different documents (cross-doc coreference resolution).