Entity Linker

Entity linker is an Obsidian plugin links research terms to corresponding standard entities(wikidata, wikipedia, openalex)

Usage

This plugin has two commands:

1. Link selection to entity, which suggest entities using the selected text as search term.
2. Link active note to entity, which suggest entities using the active note's title as search term.

Demo

Entity linking via selection as well as active note

How it works

Plugins uses OpenAlex api to search for terms and create entity note for the same.

Installation

From github

1. Go to the Releases page.
2. Download the latest obsidian-entity-linker-${version}.zip.
3. Extract its contents.
4. Move the contents into /your-vault/.obsidian/plugins/obsidian-entity-linker/.
5. Enable the plugin in Obsidian:
   • Open Obsidian, go to Settings > Community Plugins.
   • Make sure Restricted mode is off.
   • Search installed plugins for entity-linker.
   • Click Enable.

From within Obsidian

You can install this plugin within Obsidian by doing the following:

1. Open Settings > Community plugins.
2. Make sure Restricted mode is off.
3. Click Browse.
4. Search for Entity Linker.
5. Click Install.
6. Once installed, click Enable.

For development

Compilation

1. Clone this repo inside path/to/your/dev/vault/.obsidian/plugins.
2. npm i or yarn to install dependencies
3. npm run build to compile, or npm run dev to start compilation in watch mode.

Roadmap

• First release
• Add fuzzy logic
• Add direct search

FAQs

1. Why is email(optional) asked in settings?
   We use OpenAlex API for fetching metadata. Their API is rate limited. If you add your email in the request, your requests goes into polite pool which has much faster and more consistent response times.

Recommendations

1. Obsidian Wikidata Importer pulls data from the Wikidata database into your Obsidian notes
2. Obsidian Wikipedia gets the first section of Wikipedia and pastes it into your active note.

Acknowledgement

1. Many thanks to Shaun Martin for File Suggestion Component which this plugin relies on.
2. Thanks to OpenAlex team for providing free for use API over scholarly works.
3. Thanks to Obsidian team for upholding malleability in the product that allows people to add and share new features. without hassle.