IM Relationship Resolution Information Center, Version 4.2

Confirmations and denials

After a candidate list has been created, and the basic resolution criteria have been compared, entity resolution compares additional criteria to strengthen or weaken a resolution score. These additional criteria are confirmations and denials.

Confirmations and denials compare the following data types:

Confirmation weight is the value used to apply more weight to two compared entities’ baseline resolution score. Denial weight is the value (typically a negative value) used to apply less weight to two compared entities' baseline resolution score.

Example

A resolution configuration can have a date of birth confirmation value of +10 and denial value of -20. If the inbound record shares a common date of birth with a candidate entity, a value of 10 will be added to the resolution score. If they have different dates of birth, a value of 20 will be subtracted from the resolution score.
Note: The date of birth confirmation and denial weights apply to the resolution score assigned by a specific resolution rule. They are not the same as the DOBConfThreshold parameter configured in the pipeline configuration file.


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Last updated: 2009