A fundamental insight on which our work is based is that if we build an entity linking test collection using the English half of a parallel text collection, we can make use of readily available annotators and tools developed specifically for English, then project the English results onto the other language.
we apply English NER to find person names in text (Ratinov and Roth, 2009), our English entity linking system to identify candidate entity IDs, and English annotators on Amazon's Mechanical Turk to select the correct  kbid for each name.