Temporal Closing Path for PLM-based Temporal Knowledge Graph Completion

Temporal Knowledge Graph Completion (TKGC) aims to predict missing parts of quadruples, which is crucial for real-life knowledge graphs. Compared with methods that only use graph neural networks, the emergence of pre-trained model has introduced a trend of simultaneously leveraging text and graph structure information. However, most current methods based on pre-trained models struggle to effectively utilize both text and multi-hop graph structure information concurrently, resulting in insufficient association mining of relations. To address the challenge, we propose a novel model: Temporal Closing Path for Pre-trained Language Model-based TKGC (TCP-PLM). We obtain the temporal closing relation path of the target relation through sampling, and use the relation path as a bridge to simultaneously utilize text and multi-hop graph structure information. Moreover, the relation path serves as a tool for mining associations between relations. At the same time, due to the design of entity-independent relation paths, our model can also handle the inductive setting. Our experiments on three benchmarks, along with extensive analysis, demonstrate that our model not only achieves substantial performance enhancements across four metrics compared to other models but also adeptly handles inductive settings.