The corpus DROC (Krug et al. 2018) provides the data used in this paper. It contains about 393.000 tokens from 90 different samples taken from German novels. Each sample comprises at least one chapter. In total, this corpus contains about 53.000 manually annotated character references. 100-dimensional Word2Vec word embeddings trained on 1700 novels of project Gutenberg<ref xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" target="ftn1" n="1" /> were used as secondary input.