Entity Resolution with Iterative Blocking

Summary: Iterative blocking framework for Entity Resolution where ER results from one block inform others, iterating to convergence. Cross-block propagation boosts accuracy and efficiency by reusing prior processing; scalable system on large datasets. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4183
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2009
Pagerank: 0.00011292804
Overall Rank: 1,293 | 91.14%
DOI: 10.1145/1559845.1559870

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Steven Euijong Whang (Stanford University)
2. David Menestrina (Stanford University)
3. Georgia Koutrika (Stanford University)
4. Martin Theobald (Stanford University)
5. Hector Garcia-Molina (Stanford University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{whang_sigmod09,
        title = {{Entity Resolution with Iterative Blocking}},
        author = {Whang, Steven Euijong and Menestrina, David and Koutrika, Georgia and Theobald, Martin and Garcia-Molina, Hector},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '09},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1559845.1559870},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1559845.1559870},
        year = {2009}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 18 of 18 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
529	Magellan: Toward Building Entity Matching Management Systems	2016	VLDB	0.00017096361
626	Entity Resolution: Theory, Practice & Open Challenges	2012	VLDB	0.00015656958
852	Leveraging Transitive Relations for Crowdsourced Joins	2013	SIGMOD	0.00013604253
2,120	Comparative Analysis of Approximate Blocking Techniques for Entity Resolution	2016	VLDB	9.1406654e-05
2,290	ZeroER: Entity Resolution using Zero Labeled Examples	2020	SIGMOD	8.799251e-05
3,184	Evaluating Entity Resolution Results	2010	VLDB	7.6575598e-05
3,235	Large-Scale Collective Entity Matching	2011	VLDB	7.6139368e-05
3,304	Saga: A Platform for Continuous Construction and Serving of Knowledge At Scale	2022	SIGMOD	7.5404346e-05
3,514	On-the-Fly Entity-Aware Query Processing in the Presence of Linkage	2010	VLDB	7.3540873e-05
3,732	Entity Resolution with Evolving Rules	2010	VLDB	7.1655038e-05
4,372	Schemaless and Structureless Graph Querying	2014	VLDB	6.7384384e-05
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
6,906	Efficient Similarity Join and Search on Multi-Attribute Data	2015	SIGMOD	5.7418509e-05
7,493	Human-in-the-loop Data Integration	2017	VLDB	5.6046905e-05
7,665	Towards Globally Optimal Crowdsourcing Quality Management: The Uniform Worker Setting	2016	SIGMOD	5.5718685e-05
8,592	Robust Entity Resolution using Random Graphs	2018	SIGMOD	5.4058393e-05
11,953	Holistic Query Evaluation over Information Extraction Pipelines	2018	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 cited papers.

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
228	Reference Reconciliation in Complex Information Spaces	2005	SIGMOD	0.00023941271

Semantically Similar Papers

#	Overall Rank	Paper	Year	Venue
1	4,938	Supervised Meta-blocking	2014	VLDB
2	11,255	Blocker and Matcher Can Mutually Benefit: A Co-Learning Framework for Low-Resource Entity Resolution	2024	VLDB
3	11,571	Generalized Supervised Meta-blocking	2022	VLDB
4	3,602	Online Entity Resolution Using an Oracle	2016	VLDB
5	5,018	Schema-agnostic vs Schema-based Configurations for Blocking Methods on Homogeneous Data	2016	VLDB
6	3,665	BLAST: a Loosely Schema-aware Meta-blocking Approach for Entity Resolution	2016	VLDB
7	4,940	BEER: Blocking for Effective Entity Resolution	2021	SIGMOD
8	3,732	Entity Resolution with Evolving Rules	2010	VLDB
9	9,992	Progressive Entity Matching: A Design Space Exploration	2025	SIGMOD
10	2,120	Comparative Analysis of Approximate Blocking Techniques for Entity Resolution	2016	VLDB