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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
11358
Venue
VLDB
Year
2016
Pagerank
8.7909961e-05
Overall Rank
2,449 | 82.99%
DOI
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293 Deep Learning for Entity Matching: A Design Space Exploration 2018 SIGMOD 0.00028661817
2,036 The return of JedAI: End-to-End Entity Resolution for Structured and Semi-Structured Data 2018 VLDB 9.7066333e-05
3,057 ZeroER: Entity Resolution using Zero Labeled Examples 2020 SIGMOD 7.6458287e-05
4,023 Through the Fairness Lens: Experimental Analysis and Evaluation of Entity Matching 2023 VLDB 6.5181292e-05
4,271 Cleaning Denial Constraint Violations through Relaxation 2020 SIGMOD 6.2943273e-05
4,965 BEER: Blocking for Effective Entity Resolution 2021 SIGMOD 5.7951166e-05
5,388 Auto-FuzzyJoin: Auto-Program Fuzzy Similarity Joins Without Labeled Examples 2021 SIGMOD 5.5342724e-05
6,558 Pre-trained Embeddings for Entity Resolution: An Experimental Analysis 2023 VLDB 5.0060112e-05
7,187 Certus: An Effective Entity Resolution Approach with Graph Differential Dependencies (GDDs) 2019 VLDB 4.8020046e-05
7,930 Entity Resolution On-Demand 2022 VLDB 4.6089604e-05
8,094 FlexER: Flexible Entity Resolution for Multiple Intents 2023 SIGMOD 4.5840579e-05
8,427 A Critical Re-evaluation of Neural Methods for Entity Alignment 2022 VLDB 4.5095639e-05
9,462 The Battleship Approach to the Low Resource Entity Matching Problem 2023 SIGMOD 4.3324933e-05
9,683 Hierarchical Entity Resolution using an Oracle 2022 SIGMOD 4.3006524e-05
9,684 How to Design Robust Algorithms using Noisy Comparison Oracle 2021 VLDB 4.3006524e-05
9,854 Progressive Entity Matching: A Design Space Exploration 2025 SIGMOD 4.2652623e-05
10,022 In-context Clustering-based Entity Resolution with Large Language Models: A Design Space Exploration 2026 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
10,279 ALER: An Active Learning Hybrid System for Efficient Entity Resolution 2026 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
11,050 Blocker and Matcher Can Mutually Benefit: A Co-Learning Framework for Low-Resource Entity Resolution 2024 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
11,375 Generalized Supervised Meta-blocking 2022 VLDB 4.1905499e-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 0.00061419648
125 Approximate String Joins in a Database (Almost) for Free 2001 VLDB 0.00044946098
198 Declarative Data Cleaning: Language, Model, and Algorithms 2001 VLDB 0.0003505869
799 Entity Resolution: Theory, Practice & Open Challenges 2012 VLDB 0.00016479804
1,408 Entity Resolution with Iterative Blocking 2009 SIGMOD 0.00012162791
5,219 Schema-agnostic vs Schema-based Configurations for Blocking Methods on Homogeneous Data 2016 VLDB 5.6196254e-05
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