A Critical Re-evaluation of Neural Methods for Entity Alignment

Summary: Comparative study of pre-neural and neural EA methods with standardized matching modules; connects EA to record linkage. Paris, a non-neural baseline, beats neural methods across datasets; recommends Paris as baseline and reframes neural positioning. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 12674
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2022
Pagerank: 4.5138915e-05
Overall Rank: 8,436 | 41.32%
DOI: 10.14778/3529337.3529355

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
8,908	Deep Active Alignment of Knowledge Graph Entities and Schemata	2023	SIGMOD	4.427232e-05
9,487	Making It Tractable to Catch Duplicates and Conflicts in Graphs	2023	SIGMOD	4.3341665e-05

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Showing 10 of 10 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
62	Freebase: A Collaboratively Created Graph Database For Structuring Human Knowledge	2008	SIGMOD	0.0006429466
221	Deep Entity Matching with Pre-Trained Language Models	2021	VLDB	0.00033121824
300	Deep Learning for Entity Matching: A Design Space Exploration	2018	SIGMOD	0.00028441466
712	Magellan: Toward Building Entity Matching Management Systems	2016	VLDB	0.00017732426
1,628	PARIS: Probabilistic Alignment of Relations, Instances, and Schema	2012	VLDB	0.00011085347
1,950	Leveraging Data and Structure in Ontology Integration	2007	SIGMOD	9.9756731e-05
2,514	Comparative Analysis of Approximate Blocking Techniques for Entity Resolution	2016	VLDB	8.6139012e-05
3,645	Large-Scale Collective Entity Matching	2011	VLDB	6.8853274e-05
3,915	A Benchmarking Study of Embedding-based Entity Alignment for Knowledge Graphs	2020	VLDB	6.6332294e-05
8,964	Knowledge Translation	2020	VLDB	4.4198627e-05

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