The document describes a framework for performing information extraction from social media posts. It leverages entity linking to improve named entity recognition in short texts. The framework includes components for named entity recognition, candidate retrieval from a knowledge base, entity disambiguation, and using the linking results to enhance the entity classifier. An evaluation on a dataset of tweets shows marginal improvements in entity classification accuracy when incorporating entity linking information. The authors discuss opportunities to better identify new emerging entities from social media and extract relationships to improve knowledge base curation.