FlexER: Flexible Entity Resolution for Multiple Intents

Summary: MIER extends ER to multiple intents, enabling downstream interpretations beyond a single view. FlexER builds a multiplex intent-based pair graph and uses a GNN for multi-label resolution; introduces a large-scale benchmark (plus two standard benchmarks) and beats universal ER SOTA. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: hb9392aa45564ac0f
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2023
Pagerank: 5.5923113e-05
Overall Rank: 7,181 | 51.72%
DOI: 10.1145/3588722

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Authors

1. Bar Genossar (Technion)
2. Roee Shraga (Northeastern University)
3. Avigdor Gal (Technion)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{genossar_sigmod23,
        title = {{FlexER: Flexible Entity Resolution for Multiple Intents}},
        author = {Genossar, Bar and Shraga, Roee and Gal, Avigdor},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '23},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3588722},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3588722},
        year = {2023}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 5 of 5 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
5,097	Explaining Dataset Changes for Semantic Data Versioning with Explain-Da-V	2023	VLDB	6.2742361e-05
5,410	ELEET: Efficient Learned Query Execution over Text and Tables	2024	VLDB	6.1408676e-05
8,574	OmniMatch: Joinability Discovery in Data Products	2025	VLDB	5.312217e-05
10,462	Generalized Entity Matching with Adaptivity via Large Language Models	2026	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05
10,748	ALER: An Active Learning Hybrid System for Efficient Entity Resolution	2026	VLDB	4.9793485e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 18 of 18 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
134	Deep Entity Matching with Pre-Trained Language Models	2021	VLDB	0.00030043481
158	Deep Learning for Entity Matching: A Design Space Exploration	2018	SIGMOD	0.00028046388
457	Distributed Representations of Tuples for Entity Resolution	2018	VLDB	0.00017907103
530	Magellan: Toward Building Entity Matching Management Systems	2016	VLDB	0.00016855162
623	Entity Resolution: Theory, Practice & Open Challenges	2012	VLDB	0.00015483844
715	Data Integration with Uncertainty	2007	VLDB	0.00014559092
1,247	Entity Matching: How Similar Is Similar	2011	VLDB	0.00011346515
1,391	Creating Embeddings of Heterogeneous Relational Datasets for Data Integration Tasks	2020	SIGMOD	0.00010816237
1,493	Synthesizing Entity Matching Rules by Examples	2018	VLDB	0.00010505174
2,110	Comparative Analysis of Approximate Blocking Techniques for Entity Resolution	2016	VLDB	9.0233278e-05
2,475	A Comprehensive Benchmark Framework for Active Learning Methods in Entity Matching	2020	SIGMOD	8.410678e-05
2,514	Deep Learning for Blocking in Entity Matching: A Design Space Exploration	2021	VLDB	8.3648432e-05
3,577	On-the-Fly Entity-Aware Query Processing in the Presence of Linkage	2010	VLDB	7.1931114e-05
4,033	Dual-Objective Fine-Tuning of BERT for Entity Matching	2021	VLDB	6.8394738e-05
5,076	Rotom: A Meta-Learned Data Augmentation Framework for Entity Matching, Data Cleaning, Text Classification, and Beyond	2021	SIGMOD	6.2860582e-05
5,946	Exploiting Context Analysis for Combining Multiple Entity Resolution Systems	2009	SIGMOD	5.9379643e-05
6,883	ADnEV: Cross-Domain Schema Matching using Deep Similarity Matrix Adjustment and Evaluation	2020	VLDB	5.6565418e-05
8,437	Multi-Source Uncertain Entity Resolution at Yad Vashem: Transforming Holocaust Victim Reports into People	2016	SIGMOD	5.3350162e-05

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