In linguistics, coreference (sometimes written co-reference) occurs when two or more expressions in a text refer to the same person or thing; they have the same referent, e.g. Billi said hei would come; the proper noun Bill and the pronoun he refer to the same person, namely to Bill. Coreference is the main concept underlying binding phenomena in ... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coreference
a relationship between two words or phrases in which both refer to the same person or thing and one stands as a linguistic antecedent of the other, as the two pronouns in She taught herself but not in She taught her. Found on https://www.infoplease.com/dictionary/coreference