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:
- Date of Birth
- Unique Number
- Generation
- Characteristics
- You can specify any characteristic to be used as part of confirmations
and denials.
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.