  This work studies the use of visual semantic representations to align
entities in heterogeneous knowledge graphs (KGs). Images are natural components
of many existing KGs. By combining visual knowledge with other auxiliary
information, we show that the proposed new approach, EVA, creates a holistic
entity representation that provides strong signals for cross-graph entity
alignment. Besides, previous entity alignment methods require human labelled
seed alignment, restricting availability. EVA provides a completely
unsupervised solution by leveraging the visual similarity of entities to create
an initial seed dictionary (visual pivots). Experiments on benchmark data sets
DBP15k and DWY15k show that EVA offers state-of-the-art performance on both
monolingual and cross-lingual entity alignment tasks. Furthermore, we discover
that images are particularly useful to align long-tail KG entities, which
inherently lack the structural contexts necessary for capturing the
correspondences.
