The Name Manager algorithm scores incoming name data based on grouping the name into name parts and then determining the culture for each name part. The algorithm then scores each name part, and the resulting scores are used during entity resolution.
While the Name Manager algorithm is separate from the Name Comparator algorithms (NC1 and NC2), you must still select either NC1 or NC2. During the entity resolution process, names are first scored based on the selected Name Comparator algorithms. If the name scores an exact match, entity resolution skips the Name Manager scoring, because the exact name match satisfies the name score portion of the resolution rule. If the incoming name scores less than an exact match, however, the entity resolution process scores the name using the Name Manager algorithm.
First, the algorithm parses the name into name parts (given name, surname, and full name), and then the algorithm determines the culture for each name part. Finally, the algorithm assigns each name part a score, and compares the scores against the configured Name Manager score thresholds to determine how closely the names matched. The higher the score threshold is set, the closer the name parts from the incoming name data must match the name parts from the existing entity in the entity database.