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: h3e94611a83f9b18c
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2009
Pagerank: 0.00011068452
Overall Rank: 1,309 | 91.23%
DOI: 10.1145/1559845.1559870

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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
517	Magellan: Toward Building Entity Matching Management Systems	2016	VLDB	0.00016946929
621	Entity Resolution: Theory, Practice & Open Challenges	2012	VLDB	0.00015460277
873	Leveraging Transitive Relations for Crowdsourced Joins	2013	SIGMOD	0.00013306946
2,120	Comparative Analysis of Approximate Blocking Techniques for Entity Resolution	2016	VLDB	8.9985078e-05
2,271	ZeroER: Entity Resolution using Zero Labeled Examples	2020	SIGMOD	8.7110698e-05
2,825	Saga: A Platform for Continuous Construction and Serving of Knowledge At Scale	2022	SIGMOD	7.9503483e-05
3,253	Evaluating Entity Resolution Results	2010	VLDB	7.4750552e-05
3,280	Large-Scale Collective Entity Matching	2011	VLDB	7.4495028e-05
3,590	On-the-Fly Entity-Aware Query Processing in the Presence of Linkage	2010	VLDB	7.166226e-05
3,795	Entity Resolution with Evolving Rules	2010	VLDB	6.9962459e-05
4,488	Schemaless and Structureless Graph Querying	2014	VLDB	6.5623564e-05
5,085	Supervised Meta-blocking	2014	VLDB	6.2672402e-05
5,167	Schema-agnostic vs Schema-based Configurations for Blocking Methods on Homogeneous Data	2016	VLDB	6.2335794e-05
6,404	Human-in-the-loop Data Integration	2017	VLDB	5.7797097e-05
7,035	Efficient Similarity Join and Search on Multi-Attribute Data	2015	SIGMOD	5.5997831e-05
7,601	Robust Entity Resolution using Random Graphs	2018	SIGMOD	5.4714372e-05
7,839	Towards Globally Optimal Crowdsourcing Quality Management: The Uniform Worker Setting	2016	SIGMOD	5.4264161e-05
12,300	Holistic Query Evaluation over Information Extraction Pipelines	2018	VLDB	4.9605343e-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
60	The Merge/Purge Problem for Large Databases	1995	SIGMOD	0.00039343755
231	Reference Reconciliation in Complex Information Spaces	2005	SIGMOD	0.00023797615

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