BEER: Blocking for Effective Entity Resolution

Summary: BEER proposes progressive blocking for ER, using a feedback loop from ER output to refine candidate pruning. End-to-end, data-driven BEER provides visualization and explanations to compare blocking choices across cluster sizes, with no manual tuning. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 6029
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2021
Pagerank: 5.7827362e-05
Overall Rank: 4,989 | 65.30%
DOI: 10.1145/3448016.3452747

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 5 of 5 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
3,640	Deep Learning for Blocking in Entity Matching: A Design Space Exploration	2021	VLDB	6.8891671e-05
8,092	Saga: A Scalable Framework for Optimizing Data Cleaning Pipelines for Machine Learning Applications	2023	SIGMOD	4.587921e-05
9,855	Progressive Entity Matching: A Design Space Exploration	2025	SIGMOD	4.269353e-05
10,624	Evaluating Methods for Efficient Entity Count Estimation	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
11,373	Generalized Supervised Meta-blocking	2022	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 15 of 15 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
67	The Merge/Purge Problem for Large Databases	1995	SIGMOD	0.00061348205
125	Approximate String Joins in a Database (Almost) for Free	2001	VLDB	0.00044847972
643	Corleone: Hands-Off Crowdsourcing for Entity Matching	2014	SIGMOD	0.00018754451
712	Magellan: Toward Building Entity Matching Management Systems	2016	VLDB	0.00017732426
866	Leveraging Transitive Relations for Crowdsourced Joins	2013	SIGMOD	0.00015801196
1,841	Crowdsourcing Algorithms for Entity Resolution	2014	VLDB	0.00010348858
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
2,514	Comparative Analysis of Approximate Blocking Techniques for Entity Resolution	2016	VLDB	8.6139012e-05
3,977	BLAST: a Loosely Schema-aware Meta-blocking Approach for Entity Resolution	2016	VLDB	6.5736268e-05
4,104	Online Entity Resolution Using an Oracle	2016	VLDB	6.4493809e-05
4,974	Supervised Meta-blocking	2014	VLDB	5.7903293e-05
5,228	Schema-agnostic vs Schema-based Configurations for Blocking Methods on Homogeneous Data	2016	VLDB	5.6158315e-05
7,450	SystemER: A Human-in-the-loop System for Explainable Entity Resolution	2019	VLDB	4.7265276e-05
8,585	Robust Entity Resolution using Random Graphs	2018	SIGMOD	4.4905755e-05

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754	Distributed Representations of Tuples for Entity Resolution	2018	VLDB	0.00017117211
4,974	Supervised Meta-blocking	2014	VLDB	5.7903293e-05
3,640	Deep Learning for Blocking in Entity Matching: A Design Space Exploration	2021	VLDB	6.8891671e-05
11,047	Blocker and Matcher Can Mutually Benefit: A Co-Learning Framework for Low-Resource Entity Resolution	2024	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
3,977	BLAST: a Loosely Schema-aware Meta-blocking Approach for Entity Resolution	2016	VLDB	6.5736268e-05
11,373	Generalized Supervised Meta-blocking	2022	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
8,008	Entity Resolution On-Demand	2022	VLDB	4.6067684e-05
2,514	Comparative Analysis of Approximate Blocking Techniques for Entity Resolution	2016	VLDB	8.6139012e-05
9,461	BrewER: Entity Resolution On-Demand	2023	VLDB	4.3366491e-05
1,410	Entity Resolution with Iterative Blocking	2009	SIGMOD	0.00012127555