Setting aside the issue of disambiguation, dbpedia provides a linked data interface to the content of wikipedia.
Connecting that to your XML is just a question of the document model you use. If you want to know whether endpoint a is the same as endpoint b in the linked data world you can try the sameas service. On 16 May 2011, at 15:37, Jon Gorman <jonathan.gor...@gmail.com> wrote: > Just to clarify, are you picturing some sort of feedback loop? I'm > just trying to get a better picture of the process (sounds like an > interesting project). > > In other words, do you have something like: > > 1) take in a full-text document (like, say, a novel?) > 2) Run it through NER, pull out locations, places, things. > 3) Have a user who's read the novel (or perhaps display those words in > context?) go through each the locations and pick a lat & long using > Google Maps as an interface. (Ie says this "Dublin" is Dublin, OH not > Dublin, Ireland). > 4) Do something similar with names, only using some sort of resource > like dbpedia to display possible individuals? > 5) markup the original file in an XML doc w/ identifiers around those > occurrences? > > Is that what you're picturing? > > Jon G. > > Who doesn't really know enough about linked data to contribute, but is > interested nonetheless.