Challenge: Existing methods to link ambiguous mentions to entities in multimodal knowledge graphs rely on partial correlations.
Approach: They propose a framework that leverages multi-element correlations to bridge modality gap and enable fine-grained semantic matching by exploiting correlation between multimodal features and entities.
Outcome: The proposed framework outperforms state-of-the-art models and confirms the effectiveness of the proposed method.

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