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Comparative Analysis of Approximate Blocking Techniques for Entity Resolution

Summary: Empirically evaluates 17 entity-resolution blocking methods across 13 real and synthetic benchmarks, spanning millions of entities. Introduces a lifecycle-based taxonomy and formalizes default/best parameter selection to expose configuration sensitivity, scalability, and recall–efficiency trade-offs. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID
h8b29b7b471797c00
Venue
VLDB
Year
2016
Pagerank
9.0194027e-05
Overall Rank
2,111 | 85.82%
DOI
10.14778/2947618.2947624
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BibTeX Citation

@article{papadakis_vldb16,
        title = {{Comparative Analysis of Approximate Blocking Techniques for Entity Resolution}},
        author = {Papadakis, George and Svirsky, Jonathan and Gal, Avigdor and Palpanas, Themis},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '16},
        volume = {9},
        number = {9},
        pages = {684--695},
        doi = {10.14778/2947618.2947624},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2947618.2947624},
        year = {2016}
}

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158 Deep Learning for Entity Matching: A Design Space Exploration 2018 SIGMOD 0.00028038831
2,325 ZeroER: Entity Resolution using Zero Labeled Examples 2020 SIGMOD 8.6308459e-05
2,676 The return of JedAI: End-to-End Entity Resolution for Structured and Semi-Structured Data 2018 VLDB 8.1436444e-05
3,360 Cleaning Denial Constraint Violations through Relaxation 2020 SIGMOD 7.3732195e-05
4,972 Auto-FuzzyJoin: Auto-Program Fuzzy Similarity Joins Without Labeled Examples 2021 SIGMOD 6.3300201e-05
5,052 BEER: Blocking for Effective Entity Resolution 2021 SIGMOD 6.2949299e-05
5,542 Pre-trained Embeddings for Entity Resolution: An Experimental Analysis 2023 VLDB 6.0878758e-05
5,624 Through the Fairness Lens: Experimental Analysis and Evaluation of Entity Matching 2023 VLDB 6.0583019e-05
7,170 FlexER: Flexible Entity Resolution for Multiple Intents 2023 SIGMOD 5.5922367e-05
7,228 Certus: An Effective Entity Resolution Approach with Graph Differential Dependencies (GDDs) 2019 VLDB 5.5783924e-05
7,263 Entity Resolution On-Demand 2022 VLDB 5.5693872e-05
8,617 A Critical Re-evaluation of Neural Methods for Entity Alignment 2022 VLDB 5.300529e-05
9,791 The Battleship Approach to the Low Resource Entity Matching Problem 2023 SIGMOD 5.1259002e-05
10,011 Hierarchical Entity Resolution using an Oracle 2022 SIGMOD 5.0954911e-05
10,013 How to Design Robust Algorithms using Noisy Comparison Oracle 2021 VLDB 5.0954911e-05
10,184 Progressive Entity Matching: A Design Space Exploration 2025 SIGMOD 5.0629036e-05
10,209 Blocker and Matcher Can Mutually Benefit: A Co-Learning Framework for Low-Resource Entity Resolution 2024 VLDB 5.0586032e-05
10,538 In-context Clustering-based Entity Resolution with Large Language Models: A Design Space Exploration 2026 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
10,758 ALER: An Active Learning Hybrid System for Efficient Entity Resolution 2026 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
11,886 Generalized Supervised Meta-blocking 2022 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
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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 0.00039440583
108 Approximate String Joins in a Database (Almost) for Free 2001 VLDB 0.00033040246
204 Declarative Data Cleaning: Language, Model, and Algorithms 2001 VLDB 0.00025179068
623 Entity Resolution: Theory, Practice & Open Challenges 2012 VLDB 0.00015477107
1,307 Entity Resolution with Iterative Blocking 2009 SIGMOD 0.00011078699
5,145 Schema-agnostic vs Schema-based Configurations for Blocking Methods on Homogeneous Data 2016 VLDB 6.2539412e-05
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