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Chapter 6
Relationships
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, begin to shi gears, moving from form to func-
tion. Entities do not just exist in the world—they do things (or have
things done to them). Capturing this dynamic as it appears in text and
visualizing the result is what we will cover next. We begin by describing
how to detect and extract simple relationships.
WHAT DO RELATIONSHIPS LOOK LIKE?
Functional relationships are typically characterized by one entity acting
on or inuencing another. us they grammatically follow a standard
pattern: Entity (noun) does something to (verb) another entity (noun). e
core of the relationship—the word that identies ...