“Think Before You Link: Rarity, Reasoning, and Retrieval in Multilingual Entity Linking” Entity linking models usually succeed when the answer is famous and well documented, but struggle when the entity is obscure, local, or poorly connected across languages. This paper shows that rare doesn’t just mean unpopular. An entity can have plenty of attention but still be hard to link because Wikipedia or Wikidata has weak structural and cross-lingual coverage. Their fix is simple. They let a…