Finally, we use the knowledge about relations for speculative merges of mentions that have a relation word as their text and are not in a cluster with any mention which is recognised as a name. If we find one of these mentions we go backwards in the text until we encounter a mention which belongs to a character that is the target of a relation with the relation word as a possible label (e.g. if we find a mention ‘Ehefrau’, encounter a mention which belongs to the character ‘Lydia’ and know that another character ‘Richard’ has a relation labelled ‘Ehefrau’ with ‘Lydia’ as the target, we merge both mentions’ clusters).