FLORA: Unsupervised Knowledge Graph Alignment by Fuzzy Logic

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Abstract

Knowledge graph alignment is the task of matching equivalent entities (that is, instances and classes) and relations across two knowledge graphs. Most existing methods focus on pure entity-level alignment, computing the similarity of entities in some embedding space. They lack interpretable reasoning and need training data to work. In this paper, we propose FLORA, a simple yet effective method that (1) is unsupervised, i.e., does not require training data, (2) provides a holistic alignment for entities and relations iteratively, (3) is based on fuzzy logic and thus delivers interpretable results, (4) provably converges, (5) allows dangling entities, i.e., entities without a counterpart in the other KG, and (6) achieves state-of-the-art results on major benchmarks.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThe Semantic Web – ISWC 2025 - 24th International Semantic Web Conference, 2025, Proceedings
EditorsDaniel Garijo, Sabrina Kirrane, Angelo Salatino, Cogan Shimizu, Maribel Acosta, Andrea Giovanni Nuzzolese, Sebastián Ferrada, Thibaut Soulard, Kouji Kozaki, Hideaki Takeda, Anna Lisa Gentile
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages196-215
Number of pages20
ISBN (Print)9783032095268
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2026
Event24th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2025 - Nara, Japan
Duration: 2 Nov 20256 Nov 2025

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume16140 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference24th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2025
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityNara
Period2/11/256/11/25

Keywords

  • Entity Alignment
  • Fuzzy logic
  • Holistic Matching
  • Knowledge Graphs
  • Symbolic Reasoning

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