Challenge: Existing methods to extract relational facts without pre-defined relation types cluster hard or semi-hard instances into the same relation type.
Approach: They propose a method to learn discriminative representations for open relation extraction by using instance ranking and label calibration strategies.
Outcome: The proposed method outperforms existing methods on two public datasets.

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