IM Relationship Resolution Information Center, Version 4.2

Generic values

Generic values describe data values that repeatedly occur in the entity database and, as a result, are no longer used by the system to resolve entities.

Data values are considered generic after they exceed a certain threshold. The threshold is a configured maximum number of occurrences of entities in the entity database that can share the data value.

Generic values are organized and configured by attribute and attribute type. The generic data value of a specific attribute type will override the generic data value of the parent attribute. Standard data elements whose values can be considered generic are:

Example

If the generic threshold for phone numbers is set to 25, once a phone number value (like 555-555-5555 for example) is the phone number value of more than 25 entities, from that time forward that specific value is not used to resolve entities.
Note: When considering how high to set generic thresholds, consider that setting a threshold too high might result in the system performance eventually being overwhelmed by a flood of data that should be generic. In contrast, setting a generic threshold too low might result in important alerts not being generated because key criteria is considered generic.


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Last updated: 2009