Entity Resolution with Evolving Rules

Summary: Keeps ER results up-to-date as rules evolve by reusing materialized results instead of re-running from scratch. Proposes evolution-aware algorithm properties and efficient rule-evolution methods for match-based and distance-based clustering, with real-data evaluation showing cost savings. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: hec921ed737d83606
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2010
Pagerank: 6.9962459e-05
Overall Rank: 3,795 | 74.57%
DOI: 10.14778/1920841.1921002

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Authors

1. Steven Euijong Whang (Stanford University)
2. Hector Garcia-Molina (Stanford University)

BibTeX Citation

@article{whang_vldb10,
        title = {{Entity Resolution with Evolving Rules}},
        author = {Whang, Steven Euijong and Garcia-Molina, Hector},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '10},
        volume = {3},
        number = {1},
        pages = {1326--1337},
        doi = {10.14778/1920841.1921002},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1920841.1921002},
        year = {2010}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 5 of 5 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
3,813	Incremental Record Linkage	2014	VLDB	6.9873544e-05
6,026	Query-Driven Approach to Entity Resolution	2013	VLDB	5.891678e-05
6,179	Why Big Data Industrial Systems Need Rules and What We Can Do About It	2015	SIGMOD	5.8430324e-05
6,608	Explain3D: Explaining Disagreements in Disjoint Datasets	2019	VLDB	5.7187078e-05
10,539	Generalized Entity Matching with Adaptivity via Large Language Models	2026	SIGMOD	4.9605343e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
11	Implementing Data Cubes Efficiently	1996	SIGMOD	0.00070860346
60	The Merge/Purge Problem for Large Databases	1995	SIGMOD	0.00039343755
933	A Framework for Clustering Evolving Data Streams	2003	VLDB	0.00012976795
1,309	Entity Resolution with Iterative Blocking	2009	SIGMOD	0.00011068452

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