# Entity Resolution **Entity class:** Analytic method **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition **Entity resolution** determines whether records from different systems refer to the same person, organization, account, device, vehicle, place, or event. It is the identity-hygiene prerequisite for answering “who knows who”: false merges create spurious associations, while missed merges hide real ones. ## Relationships - **enables:** [[wiki/Identity and Relationship Analysis|Identity and Relationship Analysis]], [[wiki/Graph Analytics|Graph Analytics]], and [[wiki/Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment|TIDE]]. - **used by:** [[wiki/ICEPIC|ICEPIC]] and [[wiki/Investigative Case Management|Investigative Case Management]]. - **feeds:** [[wiki/Link Prediction|Link Prediction]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [[research/Immigration and Customs Enforcement Pattern Analysis and Information Collection (ICEPIC)|ICEPIC research dossier]] ## Connected marketplace roles The source article connects this entry with [[wiki/Identity Resolution|Identity Resolution]], [[wiki/LexID|LexID]], [[wiki/Cross-System Data Fusion|Cross-System Data Fusion]], [[wiki/Consolidated Case Profile|Consolidated Case Profile]], [[wiki/Probabilistic Record Linkage|Probabilistic Record Linkage]], [[wiki/Fellegi-Sunter Model|Fellegi-Sunter Model]], [[wiki/Knowledge-Graph Construction|Knowledge-Graph Construction]], [[wiki/Relationship Mapping|Relationship Mapping]], [[wiki/Intelligence Enrichment|Intelligence Enrichment]], [[wiki/Deduplication|Deduplication]], [[wiki/Contextual Enrichment|Contextual Enrichment]], [[wiki/Crowdsourced Suspect Spreadsheet|Crowdsourced Suspect Spreadsheet]]. These routes locate the associated people, implementations, methods, and operational contexts in [[articles/The Coming Market for Civilian Spycraft|The Coming Market for Civilian Spycraft]]. **Collections:** [[collections/The Civilian Intelligence Marketplace|The Civilian Intelligence Marketplace]] · [[collections/Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment|Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment]]. ## Civilian intelligence marketplace — operational bridge Record matching sits at the enrichment gate between raw observations and an operational subject view. [[wiki/LexID|LexID]], [[wiki/Consolidated Case Profile|Consolidated Case Profile]], [[wiki/Probabilistic Record Linkage|Probabilistic Record Linkage]], and [[wiki/Address-Confidence Scoring|Address-Confidence Scoring]] show different mechanisms and outputs. The supplied ELITE account uses the [[wiki/Fellegi-Sunter Model|Fellegi-Sunter Model]] as a general methodological reference. **Source article:** [[articles/The Coming Market for Civilian Spycraft|The Coming Market for Civilian Spycraft]]. **Collection:** [[collections/The Civilian Intelligence Marketplace|The Civilian Intelligence Marketplace]].