ParaNames: A Massively Multilingual Entity Name Corpus

Abstract

We present ParaNames, a Wikidata-derived multilingual parallel name resource consisting of over 118 million names for 13.7 million entities, spanning over 400 languages. ParaNames is useful for multilingual language processing, both for defining name translation tasks and as supplementary data for other tasks. We demonstrate an application of ParaNames by training a multilingual model for canonical name translation to and from English.