Skip to content
AI News HubLIVE
Original source2 min read

Narrative-UFET: Narrative Generation for Ultra-Fine Entity Typing

Summary

Ultra-fine entity typing (UFET) assigns highly specific types to entity mentions, but struggles with long-tail types due to reliance on sentence-level context. We present Narrative-UFET, which pairs each mention with an automatically generated narrative to provide cross-sentence context. Experiments show consistent improvements on long-tail types, especially when the entity's type changes across the narrative. Synthetic narratives outperform natural contexts, suggesting controlled discourse construction can surface implicit signals.

SourcearXiv Computational LinguisticsAuthor: Mreedul Gupta, Advait Deshmukh, Ashwin Umadi, Matt Pauk, Maria Leonor Pacheco
Narrative-UFET: Narrative Generation for Ultra-Fine Entity Typing
Report an error

The correction channel is not available yet. You can copy the article reference below for later.

Correction instructions
Read article

[2606.27598] Narrative-UFET: Narrative Generation for Ultra-Fine Entity Typing

[Submitted on 25 Jun 2026]

Title:Narrative-UFET: Narrative Generation for Ultra-Fine Entity Typing

View a PDF of the paper titled Narrative-UFET: Narrative Generation for Ultra-Fine Entity Typing, by Mreedul Gupta and 4 other authors

View PDF HTML (experimental)

Abstract:Ultra-fine entity typing (UFET) assigns highly specific types to entity mentions, but current approaches struggle with types in the long tail. We hypothesize that a key limitation is the reliance on sentence-level context, since disambiguating evidence is often spread across multiple sentences. Testing this has been difficult because all existing UFET resources are sentence-level. We present Narrative-UFET, a controlled extension of UFET in which each entity mention is paired with an automatically generated short, coherent narrative. Synthesizing narratives lets us isolate the effect of specific discourse properties. We experiment with two paired variants: one in which the entity's type is held constant across the narrative (Maintain) and one in which it shifts (Change). We show that narrative context yields consistent improvements on long-tail types over sentence-level baselines, with the Change variant providing the stronger signal. A comparison against naturally occurring contexts shows that synthetic narratives yield stronger gains, indicating that controlled discourse construction can surface signals that real text leaves implicit. Substantial room for improvement remains, suggesting open directions in both discourse modeling and narrative construction.

Subjects:

Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)

Cite as: arXiv:2606.27598 [cs.CL]

(or arXiv:2606.27598v1 [cs.CL] for this version)

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2606.27598

arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)

Submission history

From: Mreedul Gupta [view email] [v1] Thu, 25 Jun 2026 23:04:05 UTC (2,065 KB)

Full-text links:

Access Paper:

View a PDF of the paper titled Narrative-UFET: Narrative Generation for Ultra-Fine Entity Typing, by Mreedul Gupta and 4 other authors

View PDF

HTML (experimental)

TeX Source

view license

Current browse context:

cs.CL

new | recent | 2026-06

Change to browse by:

cs cs.AI

References & Citations

NASA ADS

Google Scholar

Semantic Scholar

Loading...

Data provided by:

Bibliographic Tools

Bibliographic and Citation Tools

Bibliographic Explorer Toggle

Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?)

Connected Papers Toggle

Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?)

Litmaps Toggle

Litmaps (What is Litmaps?)

scite.ai Toggle

scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?)

Code, Data, Media

Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article

alphaXiv Toggle

alphaXiv (What is alphaXiv?)

Links to Code Toggle

CatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers (What is CatalyzeX?)

DagsHub Toggle

DagsHub (What is DagsHub?)

GotitPub Toggle

Gotit.pub (What is GotitPub?)

Huggingface Toggle

Hugging Face (What is Huggingface?)

ScienceCast Toggle

ScienceCast (What is ScienceCast?)

Demos

Demos

Replicate Toggle

Replicate (What is Replicate?)

Spaces Toggle

Hugging Face Spaces (What is Spaces?)

Spaces Toggle

TXYZ.AI (What is TXYZ.AI?)

Related Papers

Recommenders and Search Tools

Link to Influence Flower

Influence Flower (What are Influence Flowers?)

Core recommender toggle

CORE Recommender (What is CORE?)

Author

Venue

Institution

Topic

About arXivLabs

arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators

arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website.

Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them.

Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? Learn more about arXivLabs.

Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax (What is MathJax?)

Key points and analysis

Article intelligence

EngineersAdvanced

Key points

  • UFET suffers on long-tail types because it relies on sentence-level context.
  • Narrative-UFET generates narratives to supply cross-sentence context for each entity mention.
  • Narrative context improves long-tail typing, with the Change variant yielding stronger gains.
  • Synthetic narratives surpass natural contexts, highlighting the value of controlled discourse construction.

Highlights and analysis are generated automatically and may contain errors. Check the original source.

Narrative-UFET: Narrative Generation for Ultra-Fine Entity Typing | AI News Hub