Evaluating Entity Resolution Results

Summary: Analyzes existing ER measures; shows they can rank results inconsistently across algorithms. Introduces generalized merge distance (GMD), an edit-distance style ER measure with configurable split/merge costs; unifies VI as a special case and makes F1 computable from GMD; provides a linear-time algorithm for broad cost classes. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h0883f56a1cded1ad
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2010
Pagerank: 7.5014275e-05
Overall Rank: 3,238 | 78.24%
DOI: 10.14778/1920841.1920871

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Authors

1. David Menestrina (Stanford University)
2. Steven Euijong Whang (Stanford University)
3. Hector Garcia-Molina (Stanford University)

BibTeX Citation

@article{menestrina_vldb10,
        title = {{Evaluating Entity Resolution Results}},
        author = {Menestrina, David and Whang, Steven Euijong and Garcia-Molina, Hector},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '10},
        volume = {3},
        number = {1},
        pages = {208--221},
        doi = {10.14778/1920841.1920871},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1920841.1920871},
        year = {2010}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
623	Entity Resolution: Theory, Practice & Open Challenges	2012	VLDB	0.00015483844
3,839	QASCA: A Quality-Aware Task Assignment System for Crowdsourcing Applications	2015	SIGMOD	6.9921604e-05
5,915	In Search of an Entity Resolution OASIS: Optimal Asymptotic Sequential Importance Sampling	2017	VLDB	5.948779e-05
8,590	Ontology-based Entity Matching in Attributed Graphs	2019	VLDB	5.3071244e-05
9,205	Entity Matching in the Wild: A Consistent and Versatile Framework to Unify Data in Industrial Applications	2020	SIGMOD	5.2076575e-05
11,894	Frost: A Platform for Benchmarking and Exploring Data Matching Results	2022	VLDB	4.9793485e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 5 of 5 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
60	The Merge/Purge Problem for Large Databases	1995	SIGMOD	0.000394583
230	Reference Reconciliation in Complex Information Spaces	2005	SIGMOD	0.00023871933
307	Eliminating Fuzzy Duplicates in Data Warehouses	2002	VLDB	0.00021499031
885	Framework for Evaluating Clustering Algorithms in Duplicate Detection	2009	VLDB	0.00013260551
1,307	Entity Resolution with Iterative Blocking	2009	SIGMOD	0.000110838

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