No Mistaken Identities: Disambiguating Entities with Identical Names

There are many companies, and even more people, with identical names. As an investigator, how do you determine whether you’re looking at the right one? Entity disambiguation and entity resolution — the process of determining whether multiple appearances of the same name refer to a single real-world entity and, if so, resolving them together — can be complex. Add the complication of multiple languages and scant data environments to the mix, and you can face a real challenge to the effectiveness of your investigations. But entity disambiguation is a skill — and you can learn it.