BLAST: a Loosely Schema-aware Meta-blocking Approach for Entity Resolution
Summary: BLAST is a loosely schema-aware meta-blocking method for entity resolution using data-derived stats to improve blocks beyond schema-agnostic methods. LSH-based extraction scales to large data, delivering better coverage and beating unsupervised meta-blocking. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Giovanni Simonini (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)
- 2. Sonia Bergamaschi (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)
- 3. H.V. Jagadish (University of Michigan)
BibTeX Citation
@article{simonini_vldb16,
title = {{BLAST: a Loosely Schema-aware Meta-blocking Approach for Entity Resolution}},
author = {Simonini, Giovanni and Bergamaschi, Sonia and Jagadish, H.V.},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '16},
volume = {9},
number = {12},
pages = {1173--1184},
doi = {10.14778/2994509.2994533},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2994509.2994533},
year = {2016}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 9 of 9 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2,475 | Deep Learning for Blocking in Entity Matching: A Design Space Exploration | 2021 | VLDB | 8.5277654e-05 |
| 2,623 | The return of JedAI: End-to-End Entity Resolution for Structured and Semi-Structured Data | 2018 | VLDB | 8.3327284e-05 |
| 4,824 | Deep Indexed Active Learning for Matching Heterogeneous Entity Representations | 2022 | VLDB | 6.4914944e-05 |
| 4,940 | BEER: Blocking for Effective Entity Resolution | 2021 | SIGMOD | 6.4336209e-05 |
| 6,403 | Parallel Discrepancy Detection and Incremental Detection | 2021 | VLDB | 5.8859374e-05 |
| 7,493 | Human-in-the-loop Data Integration | 2017 | VLDB | 5.6046905e-05 |
| 9,997 | HyperBlocker: Accelerating Rule-based Blocking in Entity Resolution using GPUs | 2025 | VLDB | 5.1814573e-05 |
| 10,203 | BEACON: Budget-Aware Entity Matching Across Domains | 2026 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
| 11,571 | Generalized Supervised Meta-blocking | 2022 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 107 | Approximate String Joins in a Database (Almost) for Free | 2001 | VLDB | 0.00033511706 |
| 427 | Big Data Integration | 2013 | VLDB | 0.00018661543 |
| 969 | Web-scale Data Integration: You can only afford to Pay As You Go | 2007 | CIDR | 0.00012892148 |
| 4,938 | Supervised Meta-blocking | 2014 | VLDB | 6.4338718e-05 |
| 5,018 | Schema-agnostic vs Schema-based Configurations for Blocking Methods on Homogeneous Data | 2016 | VLDB | 6.3993079e-05 |
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