Advancing Logic-Driven and Complex Event Perception Frameworks for Entity Alignment in Knowledge Graphs
Yajian Zeng, Xiaorong Hou, Xinrui Wang, Junying LiEntity alignment in knowledge graphs plays a crucial role in ensuring the consistency and integration of data across different domains. For example, in power topology, accurate entity matching is essential for optimizing system design and control. However, traditional approaches to entity alignment often rely heavily on language models to extract general features, which can overlook important logical aspects such as temporal and event-centric relationships that are crucial for precise alignment.To address this issue, we propose EAL (Entity Alignment with Logical Capturing), a novel and lightweight RNN-based framework designed to enhance logical feature learning in entity alignment tasks. EAL introduces a logical paradigm learning module that effectively models complex-event relationships, capturing structured and context-aware logical patterns that are essential for alignment. This module encodes logical dependencies between entities to dynamically capture both local and global temporal-event interactions. Additionally, we integrate an adaptive logical attention mechanism that prioritizes influential logical features based on task-specific contexts, ensuring the extracted features are both relevant and discriminative. EAL also incorporates a key feature alignment framework that emphasizes critical event-centric logical structures. This framework employs a hierarchical feature aggregation strategy combining low-level information on temporal events with high-level semantic patterns, enabling robust entity matching while maintaining computational efficiency. By leveraging a multi-stage alignment process, EAL iteratively refines alignment predictions, optimizing both precision and recall. Experimental results on benchmark datasets demonstrate the effectiveness and robustness of EAL, which not only achieves superior performance in entity alignment tasks but also provides a lightweight yet powerful solution that reduces reliance on large language models.