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Comparative Analysis of Approximate Blocking Techniques for Entity Resolution

Summary: Empirically evaluates 17 entity-resolution blocking methods across 13 real and synthetic benchmarks, spanning millions of entities. Introduces a lifecycle-based taxonomy and formalizes default/best parameter selection to expose configuration sensitivity, scalability, and recall–efficiency trade-offs. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID
11545
Venue
VLDB
Year
2016
Pagerank
9.1406654e-05
Overall Rank
2,120 | 85.46%
DOI
10.14778/2947618.2947624

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BibTeX Citation

@article{papadakis_vldb16,
        title = {{Comparative Analysis of Approximate Blocking Techniques for Entity Resolution}},
        author = {Papadakis, George and Svirsky, Jonathan and Gal, Avigdor and Palpanas, Themis},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '16},
        volume = {9},
        number = {9},
        pages = {684--695},
        doi = {10.14778/2947618.2947624},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2947618.2947624},
        year = {2016}
}

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176 Deep Learning for Entity Matching: A Design Space Exploration 2018 SIGMOD 0.00027191081
2,290 ZeroER: Entity Resolution using Zero Labeled Examples 2020 SIGMOD 8.799251e-05
2,623 The return of JedAI: End-to-End Entity Resolution for Structured and Semi-Structured Data 2018 VLDB 8.3327284e-05
3,361 Cleaning Denial Constraint Violations through Relaxation 2020 SIGMOD 7.4872032e-05
4,940 BEER: Blocking for Effective Entity Resolution 2021 SIGMOD 6.4336209e-05
5,134 Auto-FuzzyJoin: Auto-Program Fuzzy Similarity Joins Without Labeled Examples 2021 SIGMOD 6.3532024e-05
5,489 Through the Fairness Lens: Experimental Analysis and Evaluation of Entity Matching 2023 VLDB 6.200289e-05
6,192 Pre-trained Embeddings for Entity Resolution: An Experimental Analysis 2023 VLDB 5.947284e-05
7,083 Certus: An Effective Entity Resolution Approach with Graph Differential Dependencies (GDDs) 2019 VLDB 5.7075402e-05
7,092 FlexER: Flexible Entity Resolution for Multiple Intents 2023 SIGMOD 5.705818e-05
7,743 Entity Resolution On-Demand 2022 VLDB 5.5545622e-05
8,441 A Critical Re-evaluation of Neural Methods for Entity Alignment 2022 VLDB 5.4247564e-05
9,610 The Battleship Approach to the Low Resource Entity Matching Problem 2023 SIGMOD 5.2460348e-05
9,818 Hierarchical Entity Resolution using an Oracle 2022 SIGMOD 5.214913e-05
9,820 How to Design Robust Algorithms using Noisy Comparison Oracle 2021 VLDB 5.214913e-05
9,992 Progressive Entity Matching: A Design Space Exploration 2025 SIGMOD 5.1815618e-05
10,318 In-context Clustering-based Entity Resolution with Large Language Models: A Design Space Exploration 2026 SIGMOD 5.093636e-05
10,566 ALER: An Active Learning Hybrid System for Efficient Entity Resolution 2026 VLDB 5.093636e-05
11,255 Blocker and Matcher Can Mutually Benefit: A Co-Learning Framework for Low-Resource Entity Resolution 2024 VLDB 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
58 The Merge/Purge Problem for Large Databases 1995 SIGMOD 0.00040116748
107 Approximate String Joins in a Database (Almost) for Free 2001 VLDB 0.00033511706
201 Declarative Data Cleaning: Language, Model, and Algorithms 2001 VLDB 0.00025558602
626 Entity Resolution: Theory, Practice & Open Challenges 2012 VLDB 0.00015656958
1,293 Entity Resolution with Iterative Blocking 2009 SIGMOD 0.00011292804
5,018 Schema-agnostic vs Schema-based Configurations for Blocking Methods on Homogeneous Data 2016 VLDB 6.3993079e-05
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