Our approach is inspired by, and extends, previous works on coreference resolution which show that incorporating external knowledge into a CR system is beneficial.
a variety of approaches (Ponzetto and Strube, 2006;Ng, 2007;Haghighi and Klein, 2009) have been shown to benefit from using external resources such as Wikipedia, WordNet (Miller, 1995), or YAGO (Suchanek et al., 2007).