Comments on: The Other Half of Entity Resolution http://identityresolutiondaily.com/648/the-other-half-of-entity-resolution/ All About Identity and Entity Resolution Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:40:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: John Talburt http://identityresolutiondaily.com/648/the-other-half-of-entity-resolution/#comment-713 John Talburt Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:09:27 +0000 http://identityresolutiondaily.com/648/the-other-half-of-entity-resolution/#comment-713 Jim, I agree, but to quote William Money in "Unforgiven", I think are there 3 halves to ER. These ER activities are Mining the entity references when they are embedded in unstructured data, resolving the references to the same entity (0 degree of separation), and exploring the relationships among resolved entities. It is true that people often confuse the entity references (labels) with the entities themselves. Breaking ER down into these 3 activities is nice for discussion, but in practice they tend to overlap. Thanks, -jrt- Jim,
I agree, but to quote William Money in “Unforgiven”, I think are there 3 halves to ER. These ER activities are Mining the entity references when they are embedded in unstructured data, resolving the references to the same entity (0 degree of separation), and exploring the relationships among resolved entities. It is true that people often confuse the entity references (labels) with the entities themselves. Breaking ER down into these 3 activities is nice for discussion, but in practice they tend to overlap.
Thanks,
-jrt-

]]> By: Jim Zaiss http://identityresolutiondaily.com/648/the-other-half-of-entity-resolution/#comment-711 Jim Zaiss Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:59:50 +0000 http://identityresolutiondaily.com/648/the-other-half-of-entity-resolution/#comment-711 I suggest two further tweaks to the definition of entity resolution -- one to part (a) and one to part (b). Part (a) would be better stated as: The capability to (a) resolve multiple labels for individuals, products, or other _types_of_objects_ into a single resolved entity when ambiguity from pseudonyms, alias names or other synonym-style constructs exist The "multiple labels" in question are not typically labels for nouns or noun classes. They ARE nouns, and they are labels for (i.e. they denote) objects in the world. The original wording of (a) suffers from a use-mention confusion. Regarding part (b) of the definition, I think it's misleading to describe the connections of interest here as "between entities that are _two_ or more degrees of separation apart." I am separated by two degrees from friends of my friends; I am separated by one degree from my friends; and I am separated by *zero* degrees from myself. Since (b) is explicitly about connections between _entities_ (as opposed to, say, labels for entities), I would replace the word 'two' in part (b) with 'one'. Regards, Jim Zaiss AWARE Software, Inc. I suggest two further tweaks to the definition of entity resolution — one to part (a) and one to part (b). Part (a) would be better stated as:

The capability to (a) resolve multiple labels for individuals, products, or
other _types_of_objects_ into a single resolved entity when ambiguity
from pseudonyms, alias names or other synonym-style constructs exist

The “multiple labels” in question are not typically labels for nouns or noun classes. They ARE nouns, and they are labels for (i.e. they denote) objects in the world. The original wording of (a) suffers from a use-mention confusion.

Regarding part (b) of the definition, I think it’s misleading to describe the connections of interest here as “between entities that are _two_ or more degrees of separation apart.” I am separated by two degrees from friends of my friends; I am separated by one degree from my friends; and I am separated by *zero* degrees from myself. Since (b) is explicitly about connections between _entities_ (as opposed to, say, labels for entities), I would replace the word ‘two’ in part (b) with ‘one’.

Regards,
Jim Zaiss
AWARE Software, Inc.

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