diff --git a/.vim/coc-settings.json b/.vim/coc-settings.json
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+{
+  "java.compile.nullAnalysis.mode": "automatic"
+}
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diff --git a/systems/BLINK/cg/cg_service.py b/systems/BLINK/cg/cg_service.py
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+from flask import Flask, request, Response, jsonify
+import json
+import blink.main_dense as main_dense
+import argparse
+
+app = Flask(__name__)
+
+print("Loading Custom CG")
+models_path = "models/" # the path where you stored the BLINK models
+
+config = {
+    "test_entities": None,
+    "test_mentions": None,
+    "interactive": False,
+    "top_k": 10,
+    "biencoder_model": models_path+"biencoder_wiki_large.bin",
+    "biencoder_config": models_path+"biencoder_wiki_large.json",
+    "entity_catalogue": models_path+"entity.jsonl",
+    "entity_encoding": models_path+"all_entities_large.t7",
+    "crossencoder_model": models_path+"crossencoder_wiki_large.bin",
+    "crossencoder_config": models_path+"crossencoder_wiki_large.json",
+    "fast": False, # set this to be true if speed is a concern
+    "output_path": "logs/" # logging directory
+}
+
+args = argparse.Namespace(**config)
+
+models = main_dense.load_models(args, logger=None)
+
+
+def add_possible_assignment(score, assignment, possible_assignments_list):
+    possible_assignment_object = {
+            "score": score,
+            "assignment": assignment
+            }
+
+    possible_assignments_list.append(possible_assignment_object)
+
+
+def generate_candidates(text, mention):
+
+    possible_assignments = []
+
+
+    context_left = text[:mention['offset']].lower()
+    context_right = text[mention['offset']+len(mention['mention'])+1:].lower()
+    mention_text = mention['mention'].lower()
+    data_to_link = [ {
+                        "id": 0,
+                        "label": "unknown",
+                        "label_id": -1,
+                        "context_left": context_left,
+                        "mention": mention_text,
+                        "context_right": context_right
+                    },
+                    ]
+
+    print("left", context_left)
+    print("right", context_right)
+    print("mention", mention_text)
+    _, _, _, _, _, predictions, scores, = main_dense.run(args, None, *models, test_data=data_to_link)
+
+    print("for the mention: ", mention_text, " the following candidates were found:", predictions) 
+    print("-------------------------")
+    print(scores)
+    print(len(predictions[0]))
+    print("-------------------------")
+    for i in range(len(predictions[0])):
+        add_possible_assignment(scores[0][i].item(), predictions[0][i], possible_assignments)
+    return possible_assignments
+
+
+def process(document):
+
+    mentions = document['mentions']
+
+    for mention in mentions:
+        if mention['possibleAssignments'] is None:
+            mention['possibleAssignments'] = []
+
+        # replace the following line with something like -> possible_assignments = own_system.get_candidates(mention) 
+        # example
+
+        possible_assignments = generate_candidates(document['text'], mention)
+
+
+        for possibleAssignment in possible_assignments:
+            assignment_score = possibleAssignment['score']
+            assignment_value = possibleAssignment['assignment']
+
+            add_possible_assignment(assignment_score, assignment_value, mention['possibleAssignments'])
+
+
+
+
+
+
+# received object: 
+# {
+  # ...
+  # "document": {
+    # "componentId":"input",
+    # "mentions":[
+        # {'mention': 'Napoleon', 'offset': 0},
+        # {'mention': 'emperor', 'offset': 17}
+    # ],
+    # "pipelineType":"NONE",
+    # "text":"Napoleon was the emperor of the First French Empire.", <-- the input text ------------------------------------------------
+    # "uri":null
+  # },
+  # ...
+  # }
+# }
+# curl http://127.0.0.1:5002/ --header "Content-Type: application/json" --request POST -d '{"document":{"uri":null,"text":"Napoleon was the emperor of the First French Empire.","mentions":[{"mention":"Napoleon","offset":0,"assignment":null,"detectionConfidence":-1.0,"possibleAssignments":[],"originalMention":"Napoleon","originalWithoutStopwords":"Napoleon","logger":{"logName":"structure.datatypes.Mention"}},{"mention":"emperor","offset":17,"assignment":null,"detectionConfidence":-1.0,"possibleAssignments":[],"originalMention":"emperor","originalWithoutStopwords":"emperor","logger":{"logName":"structure.datatypes.Mention"}}],"componentId":"MD1","pipelineType":"MD"},"pipelineConfig":{"startComponents":["MD1"],"components":{"cg":[{"id":"CG1","value":"http://127.0.0.1:5002"}],"md":[{"id":"MD1","value":"http://127.0.0.1:5001"}],"cg_ed":[]},"exampleId":"md_combined_cged","endComponents":["CG1"],"displayName":"MD + combined CG-ED","id":1,"connections":[{"source":"MD1","target":"CG1"}],"pipelineConfigType":"complex"},"componentId":"CG1"}'
+
+#
+
+@app.route('/', methods=['get', 'post'])
+def index():
+    print("Incoming request:")
+    print(request.data)
+    req = json.loads(request.data)
+    document = req['document']
+
+    process(document)
+
+    print(document)
+    return jsonify(
+            {'document' : document,
+            'pipelineConfig' : req['pipelineConfig'],
+            'componentId' : req['componentId']}
+            )
+
+
+
+class LoggingMiddleware(object):
+    def __init__(self, app):
+        self._app = app
+
+    def __call__(self, env, resp):
+        errorlog = env['wsgi.errors']
+        #pprint.pprint(('REQUEST', env), stream=errorlog)
+
+        def log_response(status, headers, *args):
+            #pprint.pprint(('RESPONSE', status, headers), stream=errorlog)
+            return resp(status, headers, *args)
+
+        return self._app(env, log_response)
+
+
+# Run at flask startup (https://stackoverflow.com/a/55573732)
+with app.app_context():
+    pass
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    port = 5002
+    print("Running app... on port: ", port)
+    app.wsgi_app = LoggingMiddleware(app.wsgi_app)
+    #app.run(host='0.0.0.0', port=80)
+    # expose 0.0.0.0 - esp. important for docker
+    app.run(host='0.0.0.0', port=port)
+    #app.run()
+
+
+