23rd European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC)

May 10-14, 2026 | Dubrovnik , Croatia

Accepted Research, Resource, and In-Use Papers

Proceedings

Research Track

  • Ontology Population Using LLMs: Which Factors Matter? (PDF)
    Upal Bhattacharya, Maaike de Boer and Sergey Sosnovsky

  • Evaluating Knowledge Graph Construction from Text Without Supervision (PDF)
    Vicente Lermanda, Maximiliano Ojeda and Juan L. Reutter

  • SQA: SPARQL Query Annotating with Question-Answer Pairs (PDF)
    Yuheng Bao, Wenhao Zhou, Xuan Wu, Wei Hu, Dingkun Xu, Mingjia Qian and Yuzhong Qu

  • A Comparative Study of Competency Question Elicitation Methods from Ontology Requirements (PDF)
    Reham Alharbi, Valentina Tamma, Terry Payne and Jacopo de Berardinis

  • Are a Thousand Words Better Than a Single Picture? Beyond Images – A Framework for Multi-Modal Knowledge Graph Dataset Enrichment (PDF)
    Pengyu Zhang, Klim Zaporojets, Jie Liu, Jia-Hong Huang and Paul Groth

  • Explaining Scientific Hypotheses in Drug Development with Knowledge Graphs (PDF)
    Susana Nunes and Catia Pesquita

  • Ontology-Mediated Framework for Generating Answerable Questions and Feedback from Ontologies (PDF)
    Toky Hajatiana Raboanary and C. Maria Keet

  • Federated Personal Knowledge Graph Completion with Lightweight Large Language Models for Personalized Recommendations (PDF)
    Fernando Spadea and Oshani Seneviratne

  • CONEL: Contrastive Neural Link Discovery Leveraging Literal Similarities (PDF)
    Alexander Becker, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo and Mohamed Ahmed Sherif

  • TIM: Tiered Iterative Knowledge Graph Matching (PDF)
    Alexander Becker, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo and Mohamed Ahmed Sherif

  • Link Prediction or Perdition: the Seeds of Instability in Knowledge Graph Embeddings (PDF)
    Guillaume Méroué, Fabien Gandon and Pierre Monnin

  • From RDF Graph Validation to RDF Dataset Validation with SHACL-DS (PDF)
    Davan Chiem Dao and Christophe Debruyne

  • Interpretable Context-Aware Models Improve Expert Validation in Ontology Matching (PDF)
    Pedro Giesteira Cotovio, Susana Nunes, Ernesto Jiménez-Ruiz and Catia Pesquita

  • Fully Geometric Multi-Hop Reasoning on Knowledge Graphs With Transitive Relations (PDF)
    Fernando Zhapa-Camacho and Robert Hoehndorf

  • Structure is the Signal: Graph Encodings and GNNs for Constraint Repair in Collaborative Knowledge Graphs (PDF)
    Miguel Vázquez, Kevin Innerebner, Alexander Prock, Günter Klambauer, Elisabeth Lex, Johannes Schimunek and Axel Polleres

  • ODRL Policy Comparison by Normalisation (PDF)
    Jaime Osvaldo Salas Trejo, Paolo Pareti and George Konstantinidis

  • Integrating Meta-Features with Knowledge Graph Embeddings for Meta-Learning (PDF)
    Antonis Klironomos, Ioannis Dasoulas, Francesco Periti, Mohamed Gad-Elrab, Heiko Paulheim, Anastasia Dimou, Evgeny Kharlamov

  • Parameter Efficient Continual Automated Knowledge Graph Completion (PDF)
    Janna Omeliyanenko, Andreas Hotho and Daniel Schlör

  • Bounded Descriptions for Knowledge Graph Traversal by Language Models (PDF)
    Daniel Henselmann and Andreas Harth

  • Explainable Validation of Data Sharing Agreements using DPV, SHACL, and Human-in-the-Loop Review (PDF)
    Julio Hernandez and Harshvardhan Pandit

  • Robust Knowledge Graph Embedding via Denoising (PDF)
    Tengwei Song, Xudong Ma, Yang Liu, Jie Luo and Robert Hoehndorf

  • No Need to Be a Know-It-All: Fact Checking with Shallow Knowledge (PDF)
    Umair Qudus, Neha Pokharel, Michael Röder and Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo

  • Advancing NL2SPARQL via Agentic Workflow Design and Dynamic URI Grounding (PDF)
    Franz Pawlus, Justin Weich and Markus Nilles

  • Competency Questions as Executable Plans: a Controlled RAG Architecture for Cultural Heritage Storytelling (PDF)
    Naga Sowjanya Barla and Jacopo de Berardinis

  • Semantics-Aware Caching for Concept Learning (PDF)
    Louis Mozart Kamdem Teyou, Caglar Demir and Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo

  • Document-level Relation Extraction using Reinforcement Learning with Knowledge Graph Feedback (PDF) Manzoor Ali, Hamada Zahera, Yasir Mahmood, Hashim Khan, René Speck, Muhammad Saleem and Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo

  • Proving Soundness of SPARQL Query Results using Selective Disclosure of RDF Datasets and Zero-Knowledge Proofs (PDF)
    Christoph Braun, Jesse Wright and Tobias Käfer

  • SPARQLing Datalog for Rule-Based Reasoning over Large Knowledge Graphs (PDF)
    Alex Ivliev, Markus Krötzsch and Maximilian Marx

Resources Track

  • A Linked Open Data Service and Semantic Portal to Study the Assembly Minutes and Prosopography of the League of Nations (1920–1946) (PDF)
    Petri Leskinen, Eero Hyvönen, Alexandre Lionnet, Blandine Blukacz-Louisfert, Pierre-Etienne Bourneuf, Davide Rodogno, Grégoire Mallard and Florian Cafiero

  • OntoPFAS: an Ontology for the Forever Chemicals (PDF)
    Davide Di Pierro, Lylia Abrouk, Alexis Guyot, Danai Symeonidou, Pierre Labadie and Benjamin Lysaniuk

  • NeuroSymbolic Stream Reasoning with Kolibrie (PDF)
    Volodymyr Kadzhaia and Pieter Bonte

  • ArtKB: A Multimodal Art Knowledge Base for Cultural Heritage (PDF)
    Giacomo Blanco, Ruben Peeters, Giuseppe Rizzo, Anastasia Dimou, Xuemin Duan, Tommaso Monopoli and Federico D’Asaro

  • Mapping Change: A Temporal and Semantic Knowledge Base of Scottish Gazetteers (PDF)
    Lilin Yu, Angelo A. Salatino and Rosa Filgueira

  • CUBE-MT: A Cultural Benchmark for Multimodal Knowledge Graph Construction with Generative Models (PDF)
    Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Xin Fan Guo, Nitisha Jain, Filip Birčanin, Timothy Neate, Thomas van Erven, Sándor Daranyi and Nasrine Olson

  • EthereumKG: Building a Knowledge Graph of the Ethereum Blockchain (PDF)
    Juan Cano de Benito, Andrea Cimmino Arriaga, Sven Hertling, Heiko Paulheim and Raúl García-Castro

  • CANDI - A Semantic Framework for CAN bus Data Modeling and System Integration (PDF)
    Pavle Ivanovic, Simon Burbach, Oliver Niggemann and Maria Maleshkova

  • CR-TKGQA: A Temporal Knowledge Graph Question Answering Dataset Involving Complex Reasoning (PDF)
    Yuheng Bao, Dingkun Xu, Longfei E, Jiayu Shen, Gong Cheng and Yuzhong Qu

  • SemTS: Ontology and Vocabularies for the Semantic Categorization of Time Series Knowledge (PDF)
    Alexander Graß, Rohit Arunrao Deshmukh, Christoph Lange, Diego Collarana, Christian Beecks and Stefan Decker

  • Tool4Boxology: A Semantic Toolbox for Constructing and Analyzing Neuro-Symbolic Architectures (PDF)
    Johannes Bendler, Yashrajsinh Chudasama, Mahsa Forghani, Enrique Iglesias, Disha Purohit, Annette ten Teije, Frank van Harmelen and Maria-Esther Vidal

  • Bench4KE: Benchmarking Automated Competency Question Generation (PDF)
    Anna Sofia Lippolis, Minh Davide Ragagni, Paolo Ciancarini, Andrea Giovanni Nuzzolese and Valentina Presutti

  • Traqula: Providing a Foundation for The Evolving SPARQL Ecosystem Through Modular Query Parsing, Transformation, and Generation (PDF)
    Jitse De Smet and Ruben Taelman

  • SIDEKICK: A semantically integrated resource for drug effects, indications, and contraindications (PDF)
    Mohammad Ashhad, Olga Mashkova, Ricardo Henao and Robert Hoehndorf

  • HERTy-Wiki: A Benchmark for Hierarchical Entity Reasoning and Typing (PDF)
    Nicole Obretincheva, Elena Simperl and Helen Yannakoudakis

  • AgentO: An Ontology for Modeling Agentic AI Systems (PDF)
    Kabul Kurniawan, Elmar Kiesling, Andreas Ekelhart and Fajar Ekaputra

  • BOLD: A Simulation Framework for Dynamic Linked Data Environments and a Benchmark for Linked Data User Agents (PDF)
    Tobias Käfer, Victor Charpenay and Andreas Harth

In-Use Track

  • Energy Domain Ontology Matching with Large Language Model (PDF)
    Zhiyu Pan, Hanyang Li and Antonello Monti

  • Context-Aware Visual Multi-Turn Conversation Generation from Wikipedia and Wikidata (PDF)
    Basel Shbita, Pengyuan Li and Anna Lisa Gentile

  • A Wikidata-based Workflow for Entity Reconciliation Strategies Evaluation: A Study on Early Modern Polish Personal Names (PDF)
    Luiz Do Valle Miranda, Maciej Mozolewski, Krzysztof Kutt and Grzegorz J. Nalepa

  • LLM-Enhanced Semantic Data Integration of Electronic Component Qualifications in the Aerospace Domain (PDF)
    Antonio De Santis, Marco Balduini, Matteo Belcao, Andrea Proia, Marco Brambilla and Emanuele Della Valle

  • Towards Context-Aware Search: Dynamic Facet Generation in Digital Libraries (PDF)
    Mutahira Khalid, Mohamad Yaser Jaradeh, Sören Auer and Markus Stocker

  • An Ecosystem of Knowledge Graph-based Web Services for Greenhouse Gas Assessment (PDF)
    Ekaterina Aymon, Ivan Kostanjevec, Jan Grau, Alexander Kirsten, Bejnamin Pocklington, Alessandro Giugno, Daniel Lachat, Kimberly Garcia, Didier Beloin-St-Pierre and Jean-Paul Calbimonte

  • VRTI Knowledge Graph Explorer: Adoption, Use and Impact (PDF)
    Alex Randles, Peter Crooks, Lynn Kilgallon, Lucy McKenna and Declan O’Sullivan

  • A Graph-based RAG system for Enhanced Information Gathering in Local Newsrooms (PDF)
    Reshmi Pillai, Antske Fokkens and Wouter van Atteveldt

  • Knowledge-Enhanced Multimodal Retrieval over Cultural Heritage Knowledge Graphs (PDF)
    Xuemin Duan, Federico D’Asaro, Ruben Peeters, Giacomo Blanco, Tommaso Monopoli, Giuseppe Rizzo and Anastasia Dimou

  • Towards a Symbolic Representation of the MEMS Development Domain (PDF)
    Florian Diehl, Ivan Marevic, Irlan Grangel-González, Simon Blattner and Maria-Esther Vidal