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Entity Resolution: Theory, Practice & Open Challenges

Summary: A cross-disciplinary survey of Entity Resolution (ER) across databases, ML, NLP, and IR, unifying practical solutions with theoretical underpinnings. It outlines current challenges and open problems, highlighting gaps between practice and theory and guiding future data-management work. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
10650
Venue
VLDB
Year
2012
Pagerank
0.00015656958
Overall Rank
626 | 95.71%
DOI
10.14778/2367502.2367558

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BibTeX Citation

@article{getoor_vldb12,
        title = {{Entity Resolution: Theory, Practice \& Open Challenges}},
        author = {Getoor, Lise and Machanavajjhala, Ashwin},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '12},
        volume = {5},
        number = {12},
        pages = {2018--2019},
        doi = {10.14778/2367502.2367558},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2367502.2367558},
        year = {2012}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 32 of 32 citing papers.

Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
112 HoloClean: Holistic Data Repairs with Probabilistic Inference 2017 VLDB 0.00032801121
176 Deep Learning for Entity Matching: A Design Space Exploration 2018 SIGMOD 0.00027191081
2,120 Comparative Analysis of Approximate Blocking Techniques for Entity Resolution 2016 VLDB 9.1406654e-05
2,290 ZeroER: Entity Resolution using Zero Labeled Examples 2020 SIGMOD 8.799251e-05
2,893 Distributed Data Deduplication 2016 VLDB 7.983961e-05
3,251 Keys for Graphs 2015 VLDB 7.5963955e-05
3,304 Saga: A Platform for Continuous Construction and Serving of Knowledge At Scale 2022 SIGMOD 7.5404346e-05
3,602 Online Entity Resolution Using an Oracle 2016 VLDB 7.2691521e-05
3,916 Incremental Record Linkage 2014 VLDB 7.0185679e-05
4,100 Data Integration and Machine Learning: A Natural Synergy 2018 SIGMOD 6.9016092e-05
4,837 PrivateClean: Data Cleaning and Differential Privacy 2016 SIGMOD 6.4845444e-05
4,966 Rotom: A Meta-Learned Data Augmentation Framework for Entity Matching, Data Cleaning, Text Classification, and Beyond 2021 SIGMOD 6.4225454e-05
5,018 Schema-agnostic vs Schema-based Configurations for Blocking Methods on Homogeneous Data 2016 VLDB 6.3993079e-05
5,931 Your notebook is not crumby enough, REPLace it 2020 CIDR 6.0369708e-05
6,192 Pre-trained Embeddings for Entity Resolution: An Experimental Analysis 2023 VLDB 5.947284e-05
7,092 FlexER: Flexible Entity Resolution for Multiple Intents 2023 SIGMOD 5.705818e-05
7,265 Linking Temporal Records for Profiling Entities 2015 SIGMOD 5.6605087e-05
7,424 Data Integration and Machine Learning: A Natural Synergy 2018 VLDB 5.6214566e-05
8,077 Deep Transfer Learning for Multi-source Entity Linkage via Domain Adaptation 2022 VLDB 5.4926436e-05
8,592 Robust Entity Resolution using Random Graphs 2018 SIGMOD 5.4058393e-05
8,627 ThriftLLM: On Cost-Effective Selection of Large Language Models for Classification Queries 2025 VLDB 5.3969543e-05
9,206 A Data Quality Metric (DQM): How to Estimate the Number of Undetected Errors in Data Sets 2017 VLDB 5.3058708e-05
9,222 Enabling Rich Queries Over Heterogeneous Data From Diverse Sources In HealthCare 2020 CIDR 5.3038896e-05
9,397 Joint Open Knowledge Base Canonicalization and Linking 2021 SIGMOD 5.2755515e-05
9,560 Ground Truth Inference for Weakly Supervised Entity Matching 2023 SIGMOD 5.2528121e-05
9,818 Hierarchical Entity Resolution using an Oracle 2022 SIGMOD 5.214913e-05
9,992 Progressive Entity Matching: A Design Space Exploration 2025 SIGMOD 5.1815618e-05
10,049 Towards Interpretable and Learnable Risk Analysis for Entity Resolution 2020 SIGMOD 5.1685424e-05
10,318 In-context Clustering-based Entity Resolution with Large Language Models: A Design Space Exploration 2026 SIGMOD 5.093636e-05
10,334 3dSAGER: Geospatial Entity Resolution over 3D Objects 2026 SIGMOD 5.093636e-05
12,105 Knowledge Curation and Knowledge Fusion: Challenges, Models, and Applications 2015 SIGMOD 5.093636e-05
12,204 YZStack: Provisioning Customizable Solution for Big Data 2014 VLDB 5.093636e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 9 of 9 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
58 The Merge/Purge Problem for Large Databases 1995 SIGMOD 0.00040116748
158 Robust and Efficient Fuzzy Match for Online Data Cleaning 2003 SIGMOD 0.00028199923
228 Reference Reconciliation in Complex Information Spaces 2005 SIGMOD 0.00023941271
248 Evaluation of entity resolution approaches on real-world match problems 2010 VLDB 0.00023278354
254 Record Linkage: Similarity Measures and Algorithms 2006 SIGMOD 0.00023199211
528 On Active Learning of Record Matching Packages 2010 SIGMOD 0.00017100838
1,293 Entity Resolution with Iterative Blocking 2009 SIGMOD 0.00011292804
3,184 Evaluating Entity Resolution Results 2010 VLDB 7.6575598e-05
3,235 Large-Scale Collective Entity Matching 2011 VLDB 7.6139368e-05
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