(2014) and Ebisu and Ichise (2018) pointed out: 1) TransE and its variants neglect some mapping properties of relations; and 2) TransE and its variants force entity embeddings to be on a sphere in the embedding space, which conflicts with the expectation of TransE and warps embeddings obtained by TransE.
transE and its variants don't do well in modeling multi-mapping relations, such as 1-N, N-1 and N-N relations.