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Entity Resolution: Theory, Practice & Open Challenges

Summary: A cross-disciplinary survey of Entity Resolution (ER) across databases, ML, NLP, and IR, unifying practical solutions with theoretical underpinnings. It outlines current challenges and open problems, highlighting gaps between practice and theory and guiding future data-management work. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
ha8414aa0a6fc0dbf
Venue
VLDB
Year
2012
Pagerank
0.00015477107
Overall Rank
623 | 95.82%
DOI
10.14778/2367502.2367558

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BibTeX Citation

@article{getoor_vldb12,
        title = {{Entity Resolution: Theory, Practice \& Open Challenges}},
        author = {Getoor, Lise and Machanavajjhala, Ashwin},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '12},
        volume = {5},
        number = {12},
        pages = {2018--2019},
        doi = {10.14778/2367502.2367558},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2367502.2367558},
        year = {2012}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 32 of 32 citing papers.

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104 HoloClean: Holistic Data Repairs with Probabilistic Inference 2017 VLDB 0.00033676943
158 Deep Learning for Entity Matching: A Design Space Exploration 2018 SIGMOD 0.00028038831
2,111 Comparative Analysis of Approximate Blocking Techniques for Entity Resolution 2016 VLDB 9.0194027e-05
2,325 ZeroER: Entity Resolution using Zero Labeled Examples 2020 SIGMOD 8.6308459e-05
2,949 Distributed Data Deduplication 2016 VLDB 7.8193962e-05
3,015 Saga: A Platform for Continuous Construction and Serving of Knowledge At Scale 2022 SIGMOD 7.7504975e-05
3,317 Keys for Graphs 2015 VLDB 7.432944e-05
3,666 Online Entity Resolution Using an Oracle 2016 VLDB 7.1151622e-05
3,814 Incremental Record Linkage 2014 VLDB 7.0052017e-05
4,171 Data Integration and Machine Learning: A Natural Synergy 2018 SIGMOD 6.7576159e-05
4,962 PrivateClean: Data Cleaning and Differential Privacy 2016 SIGMOD 6.3360478e-05
5,078 Rotom: A Meta-Learned Data Augmentation Framework for Entity Matching, Data Cleaning, Text Classification, and Beyond 2021 SIGMOD 6.2832055e-05
5,145 Schema-agnostic vs Schema-based Configurations for Blocking Methods on Homogeneous Data 2016 VLDB 6.2539412e-05
5,542 Pre-trained Embeddings for Entity Resolution: An Experimental Analysis 2023 VLDB 6.0878758e-05
6,048 Your notebook is not crumby enough, REPLace it 2020 CIDR 5.9024167e-05
7,170 FlexER: Flexible Entity Resolution for Multiple Intents 2023 SIGMOD 5.5922367e-05
7,412 Linking Temporal Records for Profiling Entities 2015 SIGMOD 5.531708e-05
7,418 Data Integration and Machine Learning: A Natural Synergy 2018 VLDB 5.5306468e-05
8,253 Deep Transfer Learning for Multi-source Entity Linkage via Domain Adaptation 2022 VLDB 5.3668616e-05
8,306 ThriftLLM: On Cost-Effective Selection of Large Language Models for Classification Queries 2025 VLDB 5.3581613e-05
8,335 Robust Entity Resolution using Random Graphs 2018 SIGMOD 5.35117e-05
9,344 Enabling Rich Queries Over Heterogeneous Data From Diverse Sources In HealthCare 2020 CIDR 5.1892666e-05
9,394 A Data Quality Metric (DQM): How to Estimate the Number of Undetected Errors in Data Sets 2017 VLDB 5.1843659e-05
9,588 Joint Open Knowledge Base Canonicalization and Linking 2021 SIGMOD 5.154741e-05
9,713 Ground Truth Inference for Weakly Supervised Entity Matching 2023 SIGMOD 5.1350726e-05
10,011 Hierarchical Entity Resolution using an Oracle 2022 SIGMOD 5.0954911e-05
10,184 Progressive Entity Matching: A Design Space Exploration 2025 SIGMOD 5.0629036e-05
10,250 Towards Interpretable and Learnable Risk Analysis for Entity Resolution 2020 SIGMOD 5.0501823e-05
10,538 In-context Clustering-based Entity Resolution with Large Language Models: A Design Space Exploration 2026 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
10,549 3dSAGER: Geospatial Entity Resolution over 3D Objects 2026 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
12,404 Knowledge Curation and Knowledge Fusion: Challenges, Models, and Applications 2015 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
12,501 YZStack: Provisioning Customizable Solution for Big Data 2014 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 9 of 9 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 0.00039440583
161 Robust and Efficient Fuzzy Match for Online Data Cleaning 2003 SIGMOD 0.00027705594
230 Reference Reconciliation in Complex Information Spaces 2005 SIGMOD 0.00023861741
244 Evaluation of entity resolution approaches on real-world match problems 2010 VLDB 0.00023307564
262 Record Linkage: Similarity Measures and Algorithms 2006 SIGMOD 0.00022811258
534 On Active Learning of Record Matching Packages 2010 SIGMOD 0.00016799
1,307 Entity Resolution with Iterative Blocking 2009 SIGMOD 0.00011078699
3,240 Evaluating Entity Resolution Results 2010 VLDB 7.4979039e-05
3,274 Large-Scale Collective Entity Matching 2011 VLDB 7.4675244e-05
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