CrowdER: Crowdsourcing Entity Resolution

Summary: CrowdER uses a machine-driven coarse pass to prune candidate pairs, saving human effort. Minimizing verification batches is NP-hard; a two-tiered batched-heuristic yields efficient, accurate results, demonstrated on real datasets via crowdsourcing. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: he18f67206327585c
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2012
Pagerank: 0.0002551523
Overall Rank: 199 | 98.67%
DOI: 10.14778/2350229.2350252

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Authors

1. Jiannan Wang (Tsinghua University; University of California Berkeley)
2. Tim Kraska (University of California Berkeley)
3. Michael J. Franklin (University of California Berkeley)
4. Jianhua Feng (Tsinghua University)

BibTeX Citation

@article{wang_vldb12,
        title = {{CrowdER: Crowdsourcing Entity Resolution}},
        author = {Wang, Jiannan and Kraska, Tim and Franklin, Michael J. and Feng, Jianhua},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '12},
        volume = {5},
        number = {11},
        pages = {1483--1494},
        doi = {10.14778/2350229.2350252},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2350229.2350252},
        year = {2012}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 21 of 71 citing papers.

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7,244	Certus: An Effective Entity Resolution Approach with Graph Differential Dependencies (GDDs)	2019	VLDB	5.5606514e-05
7,304	PromptEM: Prompt-tuning for Low-resource Generalized Entity Matching	2023	VLDB	5.5454795e-05
7,396	Hear the Whole Story: Towards the Diversity of Opinion in Crowdsourcing Markets	2015	VLDB	5.5198102e-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
7,903	Subjective Knowledge Base Construction Powered By Crowdsourcing and Knowledge Base	2018	SIGMOD	5.4135034e-05
8,090	Where To: Crowd-Aided Path Selection	2014	VLDB	5.3745898e-05
9,420	A Data Quality Metric (DQM): How to Estimate the Number of Undetected Errors in Data Sets	2017	VLDB	5.1672232e-05
9,617	CDB: Optimizing Queries with Crowd-Based Selections and Joins	2017	SIGMOD	5.1376962e-05
10,047	Hierarchical Entity Resolution using an Oracle	2022	SIGMOD	5.0786422e-05
10,049	How to Design Robust Algorithms using Noisy Comparison Oracle	2021	VLDB	5.0786422e-05
10,081	CrowdDQS: Dynamic Question Selection in Crowdsourcing Systems	2017	SIGMOD	5.0732737e-05
10,216	Adaptive Schema Databases	2017	CIDR	5.0468526e-05
10,280	Towards Interpretable and Learnable Risk Analysis for Entity Resolution	2020	SIGMOD	5.0334833e-05
10,604	In-context Clustering-based Entity Resolution with Large Language Models: A Design Space Exploration	2026	SIGMOD	4.9605343e-05
10,651	LLM-Powered Interactive Graph Search: A Scalable and Practical Approach	2026	SIGMOD	4.9605343e-05
12,009	Contextual Data Cleaning with Ontology FDs	2021	SIGMOD	4.9605343e-05
12,261	A Rating-Ranking Method for Crowdsourced Top-k Computation	2018	SIGMOD	4.9605343e-05
12,293	CloudMatcher: A Hands-Off Cloud/Crowd Service for Entity Matching	2018	VLDB	4.9605343e-05
12,363	DOCS: Domain-Aware Crowdsourcing System	2017	VLDB	4.9605343e-05
12,582	Knowledge Harvesting in the Big-Data Era	2013	SIGMOD	4.9605343e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 7 of 7 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
92	CrowdDB: Answering Queries with Crowdsourcing	2011	SIGMOD	0.00034613457
244	Evaluation of entity resolution approaches on real-world match problems	2010	VLDB	0.00023265795
257	Crowdsourced Databases: Query Processing with People	2011	CIDR	0.00022914527
266	Human-powered Sorts and Joins	2012	VLDB	0.00022701006
535	On Active Learning of Record Matching Packages	2010	SIGMOD	0.00016768308
890	Pay-as-you-go User Feedback for Dataspace Systems	2008	SIGMOD	0.00013212032
1,861	CrowdDB: Query Processing with the VLDB Crowd	2011	VLDB	9.4694034e-05

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