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To leverage both entity and syntax constraints, this paper proposes a robust model EBAGCN for metonymy resolution. First, this work extracts syntactic dependency relations under the guidance of syntactic knowledge. Then the work constructs a neural network to incorporate both entity representation and syntactic structure into better resolution representations. In this way, the proposed model alleviates the impact of noisy information from entire sentences and breaks the limit of performance on the complicated texts. Experiments on the SemEval and ReLocaR dataset show that the proposed model significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art method BERT by more than 4%. 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