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Comparative Analysis of Approximate Blocking Techniques for Entity Resolution

Summary: Systematic empirical survey of 17 blocking methods for entity resolution, assessing robustness of configurations and effectiveness–latency trade-offs on 6 real datasets. Explores scalability with 7 synthetic corpora from 10k to 2M entities. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
11357
Venue
VLDB
Year
2016
Pagerank
8.6139012e-05
Overall Rank
2,514 | 82.52%
DOI
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300 Deep Learning for Entity Matching: A Design Space Exploration 2018 SIGMOD 0.00028441466
2,038 The return of JedAI: End-to-End Entity Resolution for Structured and Semi-Structured Data 2018 VLDB 9.7098952e-05
3,140 ZeroER: Entity Resolution using Zero Labeled Examples 2020 SIGMOD 7.4841763e-05
4,018 Through the Fairness Lens: Experimental Analysis and Evaluation of Entity Matching 2023 VLDB 6.5244015e-05
4,273 Cleaning Denial Constraint Violations through Relaxation 2020 SIGMOD 6.3003864e-05
4,989 BEER: Blocking for Effective Entity Resolution 2021 SIGMOD 5.7827362e-05
5,434 Auto-FuzzyJoin: Auto-Program Fuzzy Similarity Joins Without Labeled Examples 2021 SIGMOD 5.5045402e-05
7,052 Pre-trained Embeddings for Entity Resolution: An Experimental Analysis 2023 VLDB 4.8497453e-05
7,185 Certus: An Effective Entity Resolution Approach with Graph Differential Dependencies (GDDs) 2019 VLDB 4.8066159e-05
8,008 Entity Resolution On-Demand 2022 VLDB 4.6067684e-05
8,436 A Critical Re-evaluation of Neural Methods for Entity Alignment 2022 VLDB 4.5138915e-05
8,958 FlexER: Flexible Entity Resolution for Multiple Intents 2023 SIGMOD 4.4210635e-05
9,460 The Battleship Approach to the Low Resource Entity Matching Problem 2023 SIGMOD 4.3366491e-05
9,683 Hierarchical Entity Resolution using an Oracle 2022 SIGMOD 4.3047774e-05
9,684 How to Design Robust Algorithms using Noisy Comparison Oracle 2021 VLDB 4.3047774e-05
9,855 Progressive Entity Matching: A Design Space Exploration 2025 SIGMOD 4.269353e-05
10,022 In-context Clustering-based Entity Resolution with Large Language Models: A Design Space Exploration 2026 SIGMOD 4.1945683e-05
11,047 Blocker and Matcher Can Mutually Benefit: A Co-Learning Framework for Low-Resource Entity Resolution 2024 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
11,373 Generalized Supervised Meta-blocking 2022 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
67 The Merge/Purge Problem for Large Databases 1995 SIGMOD 0.00061348205
125 Approximate String Joins in a Database (Almost) for Free 2001 VLDB 0.00044847972
199 Declarative Data Cleaning: Language, Model, and Algorithms 2001 VLDB 0.00035041015
814 Entity Resolution: Theory, Practice & Open Challenges 2012 VLDB 0.00016370594
1,410 Entity Resolution with Iterative Blocking 2009 SIGMOD 0.00012127555
5,228 Schema-agnostic vs Schema-based Configurations for Blocking Methods on Homogeneous Data 2016 VLDB 5.6158315e-05
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