DBpedia Spotlight

DBpedia Spotlight is a tool for annotating mentions of DBpedia resources in text, providing a solution for linking unstructured information sources to the Linked Open Data cloud through DBpedia. DBpedia Spotlight performs named entity extraction, including entity detection and Name Resolution (a.k.a. disambiguation). It can also be used for building your solution for Named Entity Recognition, amongst other information extraction tasks.

The datasets you find here were produced by the DBpedia Spotlight team and can be reused in many natural language processing tools, as well as general Web applications that need to connect text to unique URIs from DBpedia.