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: 6091
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2021
Pagerank: 6.4336209e-05
Overall Rank: 4,940 | 66.11%
DOI: 10.1145/3448016.3452747

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Authors

1. Sainyam Galhotra (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
2. Donatella Firmani (Roma Tre University)
3. Barna Saha (University of California Berkeley)
4. Divesh Srivastava (AT&T)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{galhotra_sigmod21,
        title = {{BEER: Blocking for Effective Entity Resolution}},
        author = {Galhotra, Sainyam and Firmani, Donatella and Saha, Barna and Srivastava, Divesh},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '21},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3448016.3452747},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3448016.3452747},
        year = {2021}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 5 of 5 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,475	Deep Learning for Blocking in Entity Matching: A Design Space Exploration	2021	VLDB	8.5277654e-05
7,232	Saga: A Scalable Framework for Optimizing Data Cleaning Pipelines for Machine Learning Applications	2023	SIGMOD	5.6659017e-05
9,992	Progressive Entity Matching: A Design Space Exploration	2025	SIGMOD	5.1815618e-05
10,878	Evaluating Methods for Efficient Entity Count Estimation	2025	VLDB	5.093636e-05
11,571	Generalized Supervised Meta-blocking	2022	VLDB	5.093636e-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
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
439	Corleone: Hands-Off Crowdsourcing for Entity Matching	2014	SIGMOD	0.00018464913
529	Magellan: Toward Building Entity Matching Management Systems	2016	VLDB	0.00017096361
852	Leveraging Transitive Relations for Crowdsourced Joins	2013	SIGMOD	0.00013604253
1,443	Crowdsourcing Algorithms for Entity Resolution	2014	VLDB	0.00010773106
1,643	Falcon: Scaling Up Hands-Off Crowdsourced Entity Matching to Build Cloud Services	2017	SIGMOD	0.00010134956
2,120	Comparative Analysis of Approximate Blocking Techniques for Entity Resolution	2016	VLDB	9.1406654e-05
2,623	The return of JedAI: End-to-End Entity Resolution for Structured and Semi-Structured Data	2018	VLDB	8.3327284e-05
3,602	Online Entity Resolution Using an Oracle	2016	VLDB	7.2691521e-05
3,665	BLAST: a Loosely Schema-aware Meta-blocking Approach for Entity Resolution	2016	VLDB	7.2142217e-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
7,415	SystemER: A Human-in-the-loop System for Explainable Entity Resolution	2019	VLDB	5.6240334e-05
8,592	Robust Entity Resolution using Random Graphs	2018	SIGMOD	5.4058393e-05

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