Entity Matching Meets Data Science: A Progress Report from the Magellan Project

Summary: Magellan treats entity matching as a data-science ecosystem with interoperable tools (PyMatcher, CloudMatcher) for power and lay users. Over 3.5 years, it reports production deployments across 21 EM tasks in 12 companies and a cloud-native, Docker/Kubernetes ecosystem. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 5654
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2019
Pagerank: 4.9408824e-05
Overall Rank: 6,747 | 53.07%
DOI: 10.1145/3299869.3314042

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
4,703	Medical Entity Disambiguation Using Graph Neural Networks	2021	SIGMOD	5.9855056e-05
8,099	Sparkly: A Simple yet Surprisingly Strong TF/IDF Blocker for Entity Matching	2023	VLDB	4.5859317e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 7 of 7 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
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
2,038	The return of JedAI: End-to-End Entity Resolution for Structured and Semi-Structured Data	2018	VLDB	9.7098952e-05
2,175	Falcon: Scaling Up Hands-Off Crowdsourced Entity Matching to Build Cloud Services	2017	SIGMOD	9.3644117e-05
2,854	The Garlic Project	1996	SIGMOD	8.0103732e-05
4,402	Smurf: Self-Service String Matching Using Random Forests	2019	VLDB	6.2195162e-05
11,739	CloudMatcher: A Hands-Off Cloud/Crowd Service for Entity Matching	2018	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

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1,345	Entity Matching: How Similar Is Similar	2011	VLDB	0.00012468408
9,855	Progressive Entity Matching: A Design Space Exploration	2025	SIGMOD	4.269353e-05
319	Evaluation of entity resolution approaches on real-world match problems	2010	VLDB	0.00027781866
3,915	A Benchmarking Study of Embedding-based Entity Alignment for Knowledge Graphs	2020	VLDB	6.6332294e-05
8,824	Analyzing and Revising Data Integration Schemas to Improve Their Matchability	2008	VLDB	4.4415658e-05
9,020	Entity Matching in the Wild: A Consistent and Versatile Framework to Unify Data in Industrial Applications	2020	SIGMOD	4.4079449e-05
300	Deep Learning for Entity Matching: A Design Space Exploration	2018	SIGMOD	0.00028441466
11,739	CloudMatcher: A Hands-Off Cloud/Crowd Service for Entity Matching	2018	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
712	Magellan: Toward Building Entity Matching Management Systems	2016	VLDB	0.00017732426
4,464	Magellan: Toward Building Entity Matching Management Systems over Data Science Stacks	2016	VLDB	6.1606042e-05