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Zero-shot entity linking has emerged as a promising direction for generalizing to new entities, but it still requires example gold entity mentions during training and canonical descriptions for all entities, both of which are rarely available outside of Wikipedia. In this paper, we explore Knowledge-RIch Self-Supervision (<span id=\"MathJax-Element-1-Frame\" class=\"MathJax\" tabindex=\"0\"><span id=\"MathJax-Span-1\" class=\"math\"><span id=\"MathJax-Span-2\" class=\"mrow\"><span id=\"MathJax-Span-3\" class=\"mi\">K<\/span><span id=\"MathJax-Span-4\" class=\"mi\">R<\/span><span id=\"MathJax-Span-5\" class=\"mi\">I<\/span><span id=\"MathJax-Span-6\" class=\"mi\">S<\/span><span id=\"MathJax-Span-7\" class=\"mi\">S<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>) for biomedical entity linking, by leveraging readily available domain knowledge. In training, it generates self-supervised mention examples on unlabeled text using a domain ontology and trains a contextual encoder using contrastive learning. For inference, it samples self-supervised mentions as prototypes for each entity and conducts linking by mapping the test mention to the most similar prototype. Our approach can easily incorporate entity descriptions and gold mention labels if available. We conducted extensive experiments on seven standard datasets spanning biomedical literature and clinical notes. Without using any labeled information, our method produces\u00a0<span id=\"MathJax-Element-2-Frame\" class=\"MathJax\" tabindex=\"0\"><span id=\"MathJax-Span-8\" class=\"math\"><span id=\"MathJax-Span-9\" class=\"mrow\"><span id=\"MathJax-Span-10\" class=\"mi\">K<\/span><span id=\"MathJax-Span-11\" class=\"mi\">R<\/span><span id=\"MathJax-Span-12\" class=\"mi\">I<\/span><span id=\"MathJax-Span-13\" class=\"mi\">S<\/span><span id=\"MathJax-Span-14\" class=\"mi\">S<\/span><span id=\"MathJax-Span-15\" class=\"mi\">B<\/span><span id=\"MathJax-Span-16\" class=\"mi\">E<\/span><span id=\"MathJax-Span-17\" class=\"mi\">R<\/span><span id=\"MathJax-Span-18\" class=\"mi\">T<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>, a universal entity linker for four million UMLS entities that attains new state of the art, outperforming prior self-supervised methods by as much as 20 absolute points in accuracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Entity linking faces significant challenges such as prolific variations and prevalent ambiguities, especially in high-value domains with myriad entities. Standard classification approaches suffer from the annotation bottleneck and cannot effectively handle unseen entities. Zero-shot entity linking has emerged as a promising direction for generalizing to new entities, but it still requires example gold entity mentions 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