GROUPING IDENTITY RECORDS TO GENERATE CANDIDATE LISTS TO USE IN AN ENTITY AND RELATIONSHIP RESOLUTION PROCESS

摘要

Provided are a method, system, and computer program product for determining entity relationship information for identity records to add to an entity database. For each selected identity record of a plurality of identity records, an individual query on selected attribute values of the selected identity record is applied against at least one set of entity records to determine a candidate list of the entity records in the at least one set determined to be related to the selected identity record based on the selected attribute values of the selected identity record. Entity relationship information on entity records from the candidate list that are determined to be related to the selected identity record are stored in the entity database.