Table 9.

Bacteria-biotope relation candidates (instances) in a sentence after entity blinding

Entity pair	Bacteria-biotope relation candidate after entity binding
(Helicobacter pylori, gastric)	Long-term entity_1 infection and the development of atrophic gastritis and entity_2 cancer in Japan.
(Helicobacter pylori, Japan)	Long-term entity_1 infection and the development of atrophic gastritis and gastric cancer in entity_2.

The bacteria and location mentions are highlighted in bold italics and italics, respectively