Entity Resolution to Find Relationships in Databases

By Kyle Wiggers of VentureBeat, published June 20, 2018

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Senzing’s core product is an AI-powered Mac and Windows app for entity resolution (ER), the process that determines the relationships between people, objects, and metadata, or “entities,” in a given database. It creates what Jonas refers to as a “resume” of each entity that includes all the names it’s known by, all the places it has been, and the email addresses it has used, among other things…

It’s also a tool in the fight against “bad guys,” as Jonas likes to call them. An early test with a banking organization seeded a database from World-Check, a company that tracks individuals who pose risks to the financial industry, with 1,387 fictional records containing data from 572 criminals. The system found 97 percent of them — and also discovered 127 relationships of which the bank was previously unaware.