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This tutorial is part of a series to help you learn and perform the basic functions of zentity. Each tutorial adds a little more sophistication to the prior tutorials, so you can start simple and learn the more advanced features over time.

  1. Exact Name Matching
  2. Robust Name Matching
  3. Multiple Attribute Resolution
  4. Multiple Resolver Resolution ← You are here.
  5. Cross Index Resolution
  6. Scoping Resolution

Multiple Resolver Resolution

One of the critical challenges of entity resolution is to minimize false positives and false negatives. The reduction of one tends to lead to the increase of the other. So far we have shown how you can reduce false negatives by using robust matchers and reduce false positives by using multiple attributes in your resolver.

A good way to reduce both types of errors is to define multiple resolvers each with conservative matching logic. This allows you to cast a wide net using multiple matching strategies that have each demonstrated a low false positive rate individually.

For example, suppose you have a dataset of people with five attributes: name, phone, email, date of birth, postal code. There are several ways you might try to match the people in this data set. Name and phone, name and email, name and date of birth and postal code, and perhaps even email and date of birth or phone and date of birth. Each of these combinations of attributes is likely "just enough" to match an entity. You can define each of these combinations as a resolver, and zentity can attempt to resolve the entities in each of these ways.

This tutorial adds more sophistication to the prior tutorial on multiple attribute resolution. This time you will map multiple combinations of attributes (i.e. "resolvers") to multiple fields of a single index.

Let's dive in.

Before you start

You must install Elasticsearch, Kibana, and zentity to complete this tutorial. This tutorial was tested with zentity-1.6.1-elasticsearch-7.10.1.

Quick start

You can use the zentity sandbox which has the required software and data for these tutorials. This will let you skip many of the setup steps.

1. Prepare for the tutorial

1.1 Install the required plugins

Note: Skip this step if you're using the zentity sandbox.

This tutorial uses the phonetic analysis plugin and ICU analysis plugin for Elasticsearch. You will need to stop Elasticsearch, install these plugin, and start Elasticsearch. You can learn more about Elasticsearch plugin management here.

For Linux (in the $ES_HOME directory of a .tar.gz installation):

sudo bin/elasticsearch-plugin install analysis-phonetic
sudo bin/elasticsearch-plugin install analysis-icu

For Windows (in the $ES_HOME directory of a .zip installation):

bin/elasticsearch-plugin.bat install analysis-phonetic
bin/elasticsearch-plugin.bat install analysis-icu

1.2 Open the Kibana Console UI

The Kibana Console UI makes it easy to submit requests to Elasticsearch and read responses.

1.3 Delete any old tutorial indices

Note: Skip this step if you're using the zentity sandbox.

Let's start from scratch. Delete any tutorial indices you might have created from other tutorials.

DELETE zentity_tutorial_4_*

1.4 Create the tutorial index

Note: Skip this step if you're using the zentity sandbox.

Now create the template for this tutorial.

PUT zentity_tutorial_4_multiple_resolver_resolution
{
  "settings": {
    "index": {
      "number_of_shards": 1,
      "number_of_replicas": 0,
      "analysis" : {
        "filter" : {
          "street_suffix_map" : {
            "pattern" : "(st)",
            "type" : "pattern_replace",
            "replacement" : "street"
          },
          "phonetic" : {
            "type" : "phonetic",
            "encoder" : "nysiis"
          },
          "punct_white" : {
            "pattern" : "\\p{Punct}",
            "type" : "pattern_replace",
            "replacement" : " "
          },
          "remove_non_digits" : {
            "pattern" : "[^\\d]",
            "type" : "pattern_replace",
            "replacement" : ""
          }
        },
        "analyzer" : {
          "name_clean" : {
            "filter" : [
              "icu_normalizer",
              "icu_folding",
              "punct_white"
            ],
            "tokenizer" : "standard"
          },
          "name_phonetic" : {
            "filter" : [
              "icu_normalizer",
              "icu_folding",
              "punct_white",
              "phonetic"
            ],
            "tokenizer" : "standard"
          },
          "street_clean" : {
            "filter" : [
              "icu_normalizer",
              "icu_folding",
              "punct_white",
              "trim"
            ],
            "tokenizer" : "keyword"
          },
          "phone_clean" : {
            "filter" : [
              "remove_non_digits"
            ],
            "tokenizer" : "keyword"
          }
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "mappings": {
    "properties": {
      "id": {
        "type": "keyword"
      },
      "first_name": {
        "type": "text",
        "fields": {
          "clean": {
            "type": "text",
            "analyzer": "name_clean"
          },
          "phonetic": {
            "type": "text",
            "analyzer": "name_phonetic"
          }
        }
      },
      "last_name": {
        "type": "text",
        "fields": {
          "clean": {
            "type": "text",
            "analyzer": "name_clean"
          },
          "phonetic": {
            "type": "text",
            "analyzer": "name_phonetic"
          }
        }
      },
      "street": {
        "type": "text",
        "fields": {
          "clean": {
            "type": "text",
            "analyzer": "street_clean"
          }
        }
      },
      "city": {
        "type": "text",
        "fields": {
          "clean": {
            "type": "text",
            "analyzer": "name_clean"
          }
        }
      },
      "state": {
        "type": "text",
        "fields": {
          "keyword": {
            "type": "keyword"
          }
        }
      },
      "phone": {
        "type": "text",
        "fields": {
          "clean": {
            "type": "text",
            "analyzer": "phone_clean"
          }
        }
      },
      "email": {
        "type": "text",
        "fields": {
          "keyword": {
            "type": "keyword"
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

1.5 Load the tutorial data

Note: Skip this step if you're using the zentity sandbox.

Add the tutorial data to the index.

POST _bulk?refresh
{"index": {"_id": "1", "_index": "zentity_tutorial_4_multiple_resolver_resolution"}}
{"city": "Washington", "email": "[email protected]", "first_name": "Allie", "id": "1", "last_name": "Jones", "phone": "202-555-1234", "state": "DC", "street": "123 Main St"}
{"index": {"_id": "2", "_index": "zentity_tutorial_4_multiple_resolver_resolution"}}
{"city": "Washington", "email": "", "first_name": "Alicia", "id": "2", "last_name": "Johnson", "phone": "202-123-4567", "state": "DC", "street": "300 Main St"}
{"index": {"_id": "3", "_index": "zentity_tutorial_4_multiple_resolver_resolution"}}
{"city": "Washington", "email": "", "first_name": "Allie", "id": "3", "last_name": "Jones", "phone": "", "state": "DC", "street": "123 Main St"}
{"index": {"_id": "4", "_index": "zentity_tutorial_4_multiple_resolver_resolution"}}
{"city": "", "email": "", "first_name": "Ally", "id": "4", "last_name": "Joans", "phone": "202-555-1234", "state": "", "street": ""}
{"index": {"_id": "5", "_index": "zentity_tutorial_4_multiple_resolver_resolution"}}
{"city": "Arlington", "email": "[email protected]", "first_name": "Eli", "id": "5", "last_name": "Jonas", "phone": "", "state": "VA", "street": "500 23rd Street"}
{"index": {"_id": "6", "_index": "zentity_tutorial_4_multiple_resolver_resolution"}}
{"city": "Washington", "email": "[email protected]", "first_name": "Allison", "id": "6", "last_name": "Jones", "phone": "202-555-1234", "state": "DC", "street": "123 Main St"}
{"index": {"_id": "7", "_index": "zentity_tutorial_4_multiple_resolver_resolution"}}
{"city": "Washington", "email": "", "first_name": "Allison", "id": "7", "last_name": "Smith", "phone": "+1 (202) 555 1234", "state": "DC", "street": "555 Broad St"}
{"index": {"_id": "8", "_index": "zentity_tutorial_4_multiple_resolver_resolution"}}
{"city": "Washington", "email": "[email protected]", "first_name": "Alan", "id": "8", "last_name": "Smith", "phone": "202-000-5555", "state": "DC", "street": "555 Broad St"}
{"index": {"_id": "9", "_index": "zentity_tutorial_4_multiple_resolver_resolution"}}
{"city": "Washington", "email": "[email protected]", "first_name": "Alan", "id": "9", "last_name": "Smith", "phone": "2020005555", "state": "DC", "street": "555 Broad St"}
{"index": {"_id": "10", "_index": "zentity_tutorial_4_multiple_resolver_resolution"}}
{"city": "Washington", "email": "", "first_name": "Alison", "id": "10", "last_name": "Smith", "phone": "202-555-9876", "state": "DC", "street": "555 Broad St"}
{"index": {"_id": "11", "_index": "zentity_tutorial_4_multiple_resolver_resolution"}}
{"city": "", "email": "[email protected]", "first_name": "Alison", "id": "11", "last_name": "Jones-Smith", "phone": "2025559867", "state": "", "street": ""}
{"index": {"_id": "12", "_index": "zentity_tutorial_4_multiple_resolver_resolution"}}
{"city": "Washington", "email": "[email protected]", "first_name": "Allison", "id": "12", "last_name": "Jones-Smith", "phone": "", "state": "DC", "street": "555 Broad St"}
{"index": {"_id": "13", "_index": "zentity_tutorial_4_multiple_resolver_resolution"}}
{"city": "Arlington", "email": "[email protected]", "first_name": "Allison", "id": "13", "last_name": "Jones Smith", "phone": "703-555-5555", "state": "VA", "street": "1 Corporate Way"}
{"index": {"_id": "14", "_index": "zentity_tutorial_4_multiple_resolver_resolution"}}
{"city": "Arlington", "email": "[email protected]", "first_name": "Elise", "id": "14", "last_name": "Jonas", "phone": "703-555-5555", "state": "VA", "street": "1 Corporate Way"}

Here's what the tutorial data looks like.

id first_name last_name street city state phone email
1 Allie Jones 123 Main St Washington DC 202-555-1234 [email protected]
2 Alicia Johnson 300 Main St Washington DC 202-123-4567
3 Allie Jones 123 Main St Washington DC
4 Ally Joans 202-555-1234
5 Eli Jonas 500 23rd Street Arlington VA [email protected]
6 Allison Jones 123 Main St Washington DC 202-555-1234 [email protected]
7 Allison Smith 555 Broad St Washington DC +1 (202) 555 1234
8 Alan Smith 555 Broad St Washington DC 202-000-5555 [email protected]
9 Alan Smith 555 Broad St Washington DC 2020005555 [email protected]
10 Alison Smith 555 Broad St Washington DC 202-555-9876
11 Alison Jones-Smith 2025559867 [email protected]
12 Allison Jones-Smith 555 Broad St Washington DC [email protected]
13 Allison Jones Smith 1 Corporate Way Arlington VA 703-555-5555 [email protected]
14 Elise Jonas 1 Corporate Way Arlington VA 703-555-5555 [email protected]

2. Create the entity model

Note: Skip this step if you're using the zentity sandbox.

Let's use the Models API to create the entity model below. We'll review each part of the model in depth.

Request

PUT _zentity/models/zentity_tutorial_4_person
{
  "attributes": {
    "first_name": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "last_name": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "street": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "city": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "state": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "phone": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "email": {
      "type": "string"
    }
  },
  "resolvers": {
    "name_street_city_state": {
      "attributes": [ "first_name", "last_name", "street", "city", "state" ]
    },
    "name_phone": {
      "attributes": [ "first_name", "last_name", "phone" ]
    },
    "name_email": {
      "attributes": [ "first_name", "last_name", "email" ]
    },
    "email_phone": {
      "attributes": [ "email", "phone" ]
    }
  },
  "matchers": {
    "simple": {
      "clause": {
        "match": {
          "{{ field }}": "{{ value }}"
        }
      }
    },
    "fuzzy": {
      "clause": {
        "match": {
          "{{ field }}": {
            "query": "{{ value }}",
            "fuzziness": "1"
          }
        }
      }
    },
    "exact": {
      "clause": {
        "term": {
          "{{ field }}": "{{ value }}"
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "indices": {
    "zentity_tutorial_4_multiple_resolver_resolution": {
      "fields": {
        "first_name.clean": {
          "attribute": "first_name",
          "matcher": "fuzzy"
        },
        "first_name.phonetic": {
          "attribute": "first_name",
          "matcher": "simple"
        },
        "last_name.clean": {
          "attribute": "last_name",
          "matcher": "fuzzy"
        },
        "last_name.phonetic": {
          "attribute": "last_name",
          "matcher": "simple"
        },
        "street.clean": {
          "attribute": "street",
          "matcher": "fuzzy"
        },
        "city.clean": {
          "attribute": "city",
          "matcher": "fuzzy"
        },
        "state.keyword": {
          "attribute": "state",
          "matcher": "exact"
        },
        "phone.clean": {
          "attribute": "phone",
          "matcher": "fuzzy"
        },
        "email.keyword": {
          "attribute": "email",
          "matcher": "exact"
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

Response

{
  "_index" : ".zentity-models",
  "_id" : "zentity_tutorial_4_person",
  "_version" : 1,
  "result" : "created",
  "_shards" : {
    "total" : 2,
    "successful" : 1,
    "failed" : 0
  },
  "_seq_no" : 1,
  "_primary_term" : 1
}

2.1 Review the attributes

We defined seven attributes as shown in this section:

{
  "attributes": {
    "first_name": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "last_name": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "street": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "city": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "state": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "phone": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "email": {
      "type": "string"
    }
  }
}

2.2 Review the resolvers

We defined four resolvers as shown in this section:

{
  "resolvers": {
    "name_street_city_state": {
      "attributes": [ "first_name", "last_name", "street", "city", "state" ]
    },
    "name_phone": {
      "attributes": [ "first_name", "last_name", "phone" ]
    },
    "name_email": {
      "attributes": [ "first_name", "last_name", "email" ]
    },
    "email_phone": {
      "attributes": [ "email", "phone" ]
    }
  }
}

2.3 Review the matchers

We defined three matchers called "simple", "fuzzy", and "exact" as shown in this section:

{
  "matchers": {
    "simple": {
      "clause": {
        "match": {
          "{{ field }}": "{{ value }}"
        }
      }
    },
    "fuzzy": {
      "clause": {
        "match": {
          "{{ field }}": {
            "query": "{{ value }}",
            "fuzziness": "1"
          }
        }
      }
    },
    "exact": {
      "clause": {
        "term": {
          "{{ field }}": "{{ value }}"
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

2.4 Review the indices

We defined a single index as shown in this section:

{
  "indices": {
    "zentity_tutorial_4_multiple_resolver_resolution": {
      "fields": {
        "first_name.clean": {
          "attribute": "first_name",
          "matcher": "fuzzy"
        },
        "first_name.phonetic": {
          "attribute": "first_name",
          "matcher": "simple"
        },
        "last_name.clean": {
          "attribute": "last_name",
          "matcher": "fuzzy"
        },
        "last_name.phonetic": {
          "attribute": "last_name",
          "matcher": "simple"
        },
        "street.clean": {
          "attribute": "street",
          "matcher": "fuzzy"
        },
        "city.clean": {
          "attribute": "city",
          "matcher": "fuzzy"
        },
        "state.keyword": {
          "attribute": "state",
          "matcher": "exact"
        },
        "phone.clean": {
          "attribute": "phone",
          "matcher": "fuzzy"
        },
        "email.keyword": {
          "attribute": "email",
          "matcher": "exact"
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

3. Resolve an entity

3.1 Run a basic resolution job

Let's use the Resolution API to resolve a person with a known first name, last name, and phone number.

Request

POST _zentity/resolution/zentity_tutorial_4_person?pretty&_source=false
{
  "attributes": {
    "first_name": [ "Allie" ],
    "last_name": [ "Jones" ],
    "phone": [ "202-555-1234" ]
  }
}

Response

{
  "took" : 42,
  "hits" : {
    "total" : 9,
    "hits" : [ {
      "_index" : "zentity_tutorial_4_multiple_resolver_resolution",
      "_id" : "1",
      "_hop" : 0,
      "_query" : 0,
      "_attributes" : {
        "city" : [ "Washington" ],
        "email" : [ "[email protected]" ],
        "first_name" : [ "Allie" ],
        "last_name" : [ "Jones" ],
        "phone" : [ "202-555-1234" ],
        "state" : [ "DC" ],
        "street" : [ "123 Main St" ]
      }
    }, {
      "_index" : "zentity_tutorial_4_multiple_resolver_resolution",
      "_id" : "4",
      "_hop" : 0,
      "_query" : 0,
      "_attributes" : {
        "city" : [ "" ],
        "email" : [ "" ],
        "first_name" : [ "Ally" ],
        "last_name" : [ "Joans" ],
        "phone" : [ "202-555-1234" ],
        "state" : [ "" ],
        "street" : [ "" ]
      }
    }, {
      "_index" : "zentity_tutorial_4_multiple_resolver_resolution",
      "_id" : "3",
      "_hop" : 1,
      "_query" : 0,
      "_attributes" : {
        "city" : [ "Washington" ],
        "email" : [ "" ],
        "first_name" : [ "Allie" ],
        "last_name" : [ "Jones" ],
        "phone" : [ "" ],
        "state" : [ "DC" ],
        "street" : [ "123 Main St" ]
      }
    }, {
      "_index" : "zentity_tutorial_4_multiple_resolver_resolution",
      "_id" : "6",
      "_hop" : 1,
      "_query" : 0,
      "_attributes" : {
        "city" : [ "Washington" ],
        "email" : [ "[email protected]" ],
        "first_name" : [ "Allison" ],
        "last_name" : [ "Jones" ],
        "phone" : [ "202-555-1234" ],
        "state" : [ "DC" ],
        "street" : [ "123 Main St" ]
      }
    }, {
      "_index" : "zentity_tutorial_4_multiple_resolver_resolution",
      "_id" : "11",
      "_hop" : 2,
      "_query" : 0,
      "_attributes" : {
        "city" : [ "" ],
        "email" : [ "[email protected]" ],
        "first_name" : [ "Alison" ],
        "last_name" : [ "Jones-Smith" ],
        "phone" : [ "2025559867" ],
        "state" : [ "" ],
        "street" : [ "" ]
      }
    }, {
      "_index" : "zentity_tutorial_4_multiple_resolver_resolution",
      "_id" : "7",
      "_hop" : 3,
      "_query" : 0,
      "_attributes" : {
        "city" : [ "Washington" ],
        "email" : [ "" ],
        "first_name" : [ "Allison" ],
        "last_name" : [ "Smith" ],
        "phone" : [ "+1 (202) 555 1234" ],
        "state" : [ "DC" ],
        "street" : [ "555 Broad St" ]
      }
    }, {
      "_index" : "zentity_tutorial_4_multiple_resolver_resolution",
      "_id" : "10",
      "_hop" : 3,
      "_query" : 0,
      "_attributes" : {
        "city" : [ "Washington" ],
        "email" : [ "" ],
        "first_name" : [ "Alison" ],
        "last_name" : [ "Smith" ],
        "phone" : [ "202-555-9876" ],
        "state" : [ "DC" ],
        "street" : [ "555 Broad St" ]
      }
    }, {
      "_index" : "zentity_tutorial_4_multiple_resolver_resolution",
      "_id" : "12",
      "_hop" : 4,
      "_query" : 0,
      "_attributes" : {
        "city" : [ "Washington" ],
        "email" : [ "[email protected]" ],
        "first_name" : [ "Allison" ],
        "last_name" : [ "Jones-Smith" ],
        "phone" : [ "" ],
        "state" : [ "DC" ],
        "street" : [ "555 Broad St" ]
      }
    }, {
      "_index" : "zentity_tutorial_4_multiple_resolver_resolution",
      "_id" : "13",
      "_hop" : 5,
      "_query" : 0,
      "_attributes" : {
        "city" : [ "Arlington" ],
        "email" : [ "[email protected]" ],
        "first_name" : [ "Allison" ],
        "last_name" : [ "Jones Smith" ],
        "phone" : [ "703-555-5555" ],
        "state" : [ "VA" ],
        "street" : [ "1 Corporate Way" ]
      }
    } ]
  }
}

As expected, we retrieved more documents than prior tutorials because we are using more matching strategies. In fact, the documents were collected from the results of five hops, where each hop queried the index using newly discovered attributes of the entity. These are shown in the "_index", "_hop", and "_query" fields.

3.2 Show the "_source"

We can include the original values of each document as they exist in Elasticsearch.

Let's run the job again, and now let's include the "_source" field of each document. The "_source" field is the original JSON document that's stored in an Elasticsearch index.

Request

POST _zentity/resolution/zentity_tutorial_4_person?pretty&_source=true
{
  "attributes": {
    "first_name": [ "Allie" ],
    "last_name": [ "Jones" ],
    "phone": [ "202-555-1234" ]
  }
}

Response

{
  "took" : 43,
  "hits" : {
    "total" : 9,
    "hits" : [ {
      "_index" : "zentity_tutorial_4_multiple_resolver_resolution",
      "_id" : "1",
      "_hop" : 0,
      "_query" : 0,
      "_attributes" : {
        "city" : [ "Washington" ],
        "email" : [ "[email protected]" ],
        "first_name" : [ "Allie" ],
        "last_name" : [ "Jones" ],
        "phone" : [ "202-555-1234" ],
        "state" : [ "DC" ],
        "street" : [ "123 Main St" ]
      },
      "_source" : {
        "city" : "Washington",
        "email" : "[email protected]",
        "first_name" : "Allie",
        "id" : "1",
        "last_name" : "Jones",
        "phone" : "202-555-1234",
        "state" : "DC",
        "street" : "123 Main St"
      }
    }, {
      "_index" : "zentity_tutorial_4_multiple_resolver_resolution",
      "_id" : "4",
      "_hop" : 0,
      "_query" : 0,
      "_attributes" : {
        "city" : [ "" ],
        "email" : [ "" ],
        "first_name" : [ "Ally" ],
        "last_name" : [ "Joans" ],
        "phone" : [ "202-555-1234" ],
        "state" : [ "" ],
        "street" : [ "" ]
      },
      "_source" : {
        "city" : "",
        "email" : "",
        "first_name" : "Ally",
        "id" : "4",
        "last_name" : "Joans",
        "phone" : "202-555-1234",
        "state" : "",
        "street" : ""
      }
    }, {
      "_index" : "zentity_tutorial_4_multiple_resolver_resolution",
      "_id" : "3",
      "_hop" : 1,
      "_query" : 0,
      "_attributes" : {
        "city" : [ "Washington" ],
        "email" : [ "" ],
        "first_name" : [ "Allie" ],
        "last_name" : [ "Jones" ],
        "phone" : [ "" ],
        "state" : [ "DC" ],
        "street" : [ "123 Main St" ]
      },
      "_source" : {
        "city" : "Washington",
        "email" : "",
        "first_name" : "Allie",
        "id" : "3",
        "last_name" : "Jones",
        "phone" : "",
        "state" : "DC",
        "street" : "123 Main St"
      }
    }, {
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      "_hop" : 1,
      "_query" : 0,
      "_attributes" : {
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        "phone" : [ "202-555-1234" ],
        "state" : [ "DC" ],
        "street" : [ "123 Main St" ]
      },
      "_source" : {
        "city" : "Washington",
        "email" : "[email protected]",
        "first_name" : "Allison",
        "id" : "6",
        "last_name" : "Jones",
        "phone" : "202-555-1234",
        "state" : "DC",
        "street" : "123 Main St"
      }
    }, {
      "_index" : "zentity_tutorial_4_multiple_resolver_resolution",
      "_id" : "11",
      "_hop" : 2,
      "_query" : 0,
      "_attributes" : {
        "city" : [ "" ],
        "email" : [ "[email protected]" ],
        "first_name" : [ "Alison" ],
        "last_name" : [ "Jones-Smith" ],
        "phone" : [ "2025559867" ],
        "state" : [ "" ],
        "street" : [ "" ]
      },
      "_source" : {
        "city" : "",
        "email" : "[email protected]",
        "first_name" : "Alison",
        "id" : "11",
        "last_name" : "Jones-Smith",
        "phone" : "2025559867",
        "state" : "",
        "street" : ""
      }
    }, {
      "_index" : "zentity_tutorial_4_multiple_resolver_resolution",
      "_id" : "7",
      "_hop" : 3,
      "_query" : 0,
      "_attributes" : {
        "city" : [ "Washington" ],
        "email" : [ "" ],
        "first_name" : [ "Allison" ],
        "last_name" : [ "Smith" ],
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        "state" : [ "DC" ],
        "street" : [ "555 Broad St" ]
      },
      "_source" : {
        "city" : "Washington",
        "email" : "",
        "first_name" : "Allison",
        "id" : "7",
        "last_name" : "Smith",
        "phone" : "+1 (202) 555 1234",
        "state" : "DC",
        "street" : "555 Broad St"
      }
    }, {
      "_index" : "zentity_tutorial_4_multiple_resolver_resolution",
      "_id" : "10",
      "_hop" : 3,
      "_query" : 0,
      "_attributes" : {
        "city" : [ "Washington" ],
        "email" : [ "" ],
        "first_name" : [ "Alison" ],
        "last_name" : [ "Smith" ],
        "phone" : [ "202-555-9876" ],
        "state" : [ "DC" ],
        "street" : [ "555 Broad St" ]
      },
      "_source" : {
        "city" : "Washington",
        "email" : "",
        "first_name" : "Alison",
        "id" : "10",
        "last_name" : "Smith",
        "phone" : "202-555-9876",
        "state" : "DC",
        "street" : "555 Broad St"
      }
    }, {
      "_index" : "zentity_tutorial_4_multiple_resolver_resolution",
      "_id" : "12",
      "_hop" : 4,
      "_query" : 0,
      "_attributes" : {
        "city" : [ "Washington" ],
        "email" : [ "[email protected]" ],
        "first_name" : [ "Allison" ],
        "last_name" : [ "Jones-Smith" ],
        "phone" : [ "" ],
        "state" : [ "DC" ],
        "street" : [ "555 Broad St" ]
      },
      "_source" : {
        "city" : "Washington",
        "email" : "[email protected]",
        "first_name" : "Allison",
        "id" : "12",
        "last_name" : "Jones-Smith",
        "phone" : "",
        "state" : "DC",
        "street" : "555 Broad St"
      }
    }, {
      "_index" : "zentity_tutorial_4_multiple_resolver_resolution",
      "_id" : "13",
      "_hop" : 5,
      "_query" : 0,
      "_attributes" : {
        "city" : [ "Arlington" ],
        "email" : [ "[email protected]" ],
        "first_name" : [ "Allison" ],
        "last_name" : [ "Jones Smith" ],
        "phone" : [ "703-555-5555" ],
        "state" : [ "VA" ],
        "street" : [ "1 Corporate Way" ]
      },
      "_source" : {
        "city" : "Arlington",
        "email" : "[email protected]",
        "first_name" : "Allison",
        "id" : "13",
        "last_name" : "Jones Smith",
        "phone" : "703-555-5555",
        "state" : "VA",
        "street" : "1 Corporate Way"
      }
    } ]
  }
}

Now, in addition to the values mapped to our normalized "_attributes", we can see the values of those attributes and the values of every other field as they exist in the "_source" of the documents.

3.3 Show the "_explanation"

We can learn how the documents matched, too.

Let's run the job again, and now let's include the "_explanation" field to see exactly why each document matched. The "_explanation" field tells us which resolvers caused a document to match, and more specifically, which input value matched which indexed value using which matcher and any parameters.

Request

POST _zentity/resolution/zentity_tutorial_4_person?pretty&_source=true&_explanation=true
{
  "attributes": {
    "first_name": [ "Allie" ],
    "last_name": [ "Jones" ],
    "phone": [ "202-555-1234" ]
  }
}

Response

{
  "took" : 54,
  "hits" : {
    "total" : 9,
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      "_index" : "zentity_tutorial_4_multiple_resolver_resolution",
      "_id" : "1",
      "_hop" : 0,
      "_query" : 0,
      "_attributes" : {
        "city" : [ "Washington" ],
        "email" : [ "[email protected]" ],
        "first_name" : [ "Allie" ],
        "last_name" : [ "Jones" ],
        "phone" : [ "202-555-1234" ],
        "state" : [ "DC" ],
        "street" : [ "123 Main St" ]
      },
      "_explanation" : {
        "resolvers" : {
          "name_phone" : {
            "attributes" : [ "first_name", "last_name", "phone" ]
          }
        },
        "matches" : [ {
          "attribute" : "first_name",
          "target_field" : "first_name.clean",
          "target_value" : "Allie",
          "input_value" : "Allie",
          "input_matcher" : "fuzzy",
          "input_matcher_params" : { }
        }, {
          "attribute" : "first_name",
          "target_field" : "first_name.phonetic",
          "target_value" : "Allie",
          "input_value" : "Allie",
          "input_matcher" : "simple",
          "input_matcher_params" : { }
        }, {
          "attribute" : "last_name",
          "target_field" : "last_name.clean",
          "target_value" : "Jones",
          "input_value" : "Jones",
          "input_matcher" : "fuzzy",
          "input_matcher_params" : { }
        }, {
          "attribute" : "last_name",
          "target_field" : "last_name.phonetic",
          "target_value" : "Jones",
          "input_value" : "Jones",
          "input_matcher" : "simple",
          "input_matcher_params" : { }
        }, {
          "attribute" : "phone",
          "target_field" : "phone.clean",
          "target_value" : "202-555-1234",
          "input_value" : "202-555-1234",
          "input_matcher" : "fuzzy",
          "input_matcher_params" : { }
        } ]
      },
      "_source" : {
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        "email" : "[email protected]",
        "first_name" : "Allie",
        "id" : "1",
        "last_name" : "Jones",
        "phone" : "202-555-1234",
        "state" : "DC",
        "street" : "123 Main St"
      }
    }, {
      "_index" : "zentity_tutorial_4_multiple_resolver_resolution",
      "_id" : "4",
      "_hop" : 0,
      "_query" : 0,
      "_attributes" : {
        "city" : [ "" ],
        "email" : [ "" ],
        "first_name" : [ "Ally" ],
        "last_name" : [ "Joans" ],
        "phone" : [ "202-555-1234" ],
        "state" : [ "" ],
        "street" : [ "" ]
      },
      "_explanation" : {
        "resolvers" : {
          "name_phone" : {
            "attributes" : [ "first_name", "last_name", "phone" ]
          }
        },
        "matches" : [ {
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          "input_value" : "Allie",
          "input_matcher" : "simple",
          "input_matcher_params" : { }
        }, {
          "attribute" : "last_name",
          "target_field" : "last_name.phonetic",
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          "input_matcher" : "simple",
          "input_matcher_params" : { }
        }, {
          "attribute" : "phone",
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          "input_matcher" : "fuzzy",
          "input_matcher_params" : { }
        } ]
      },
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    }, {
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      "_explanation" : {
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        },
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          "input_matcher" : "fuzzy",
          "input_matcher_params" : { }
        }, {
          "attribute" : "state",
          "target_field" : "state.keyword",
          "target_value" : "DC",
          "input_value" : "DC",
          "input_matcher" : "exact",
          "input_matcher_params" : { }
        } ]
      },
      "_source" : {
        "city" : "Washington",
        "email" : "",
        "first_name" : "Alison",
        "id" : "10",
        "last_name" : "Smith",
        "phone" : "202-555-9876",
        "state" : "DC",
        "street" : "555 Broad St"
      }
    }, {
      "_index" : "zentity_tutorial_4_multiple_resolver_resolution",
      "_id" : "12",
      "_hop" : 4,
      "_query" : 0,
      "_attributes" : {
        "city" : [ "Washington" ],
        "email" : [ "[email protected]" ],
        "first_name" : [ "Allison" ],
        "last_name" : [ "Jones-Smith" ],
        "phone" : [ "" ],
        "state" : [ "DC" ],
        "street" : [ "555 Broad St" ]
      },
      "_explanation" : {
        "resolvers" : {
          "name_street_city_state" : {
            "attributes" : [ "city", "first_name", "last_name", "state", "street" ]
          }
        },
        "matches" : [ {
          "attribute" : "city",
          "target_field" : "city.clean",
          "target_value" : "Washington",
          "input_value" : "Washington",
          "input_matcher" : "fuzzy",
          "input_matcher_params" : { }
        }, {
          "attribute" : "first_name",
          "target_field" : "first_name.clean",
          "target_value" : "Allison",
          "input_value" : "Alison",
          "input_matcher" : "fuzzy",
          "input_matcher_params" : { }
        }, {
          "attribute" : "first_name",
          "target_field" : "first_name.clean",
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          "input_value" : "Allison",
          "input_matcher" : "fuzzy",
          "input_matcher_params" : { }
        }, {
          "attribute" : "first_name",
          "target_field" : "first_name.phonetic",
          "target_value" : "Allison",
          "input_value" : "Alison",
          "input_matcher" : "simple",
          "input_matcher_params" : { }
        }, {
          "attribute" : "first_name",
          "target_field" : "first_name.phonetic",
          "target_value" : "Allison",
          "input_value" : "Allison",
          "input_matcher" : "simple",
          "input_matcher_params" : { }
        }, {
          "attribute" : "last_name",
          "target_field" : "last_name.clean",
          "target_value" : "Jones-Smith",
          "input_value" : "Jones",
          "input_matcher" : "fuzzy",
          "input_matcher_params" : { }
        }, {
          "attribute" : "last_name",
          "target_field" : "last_name.clean",
          "target_value" : "Jones-Smith",
          "input_value" : "Jones-Smith",
          "input_matcher" : "fuzzy",
          "input_matcher_params" : { }
        }, {
          "attribute" : "last_name",
          "target_field" : "last_name.clean",
          "target_value" : "Jones-Smith",
          "input_value" : "Smith",
          "input_matcher" : "fuzzy",
          "input_matcher_params" : { }
        }, {
          "attribute" : "last_name",
          "target_field" : "last_name.phonetic",
          "target_value" : "Jones-Smith",
          "input_value" : "Joans",
          "input_matcher" : "simple",
          "input_matcher_params" : { }
        }, {
          "attribute" : "last_name",
          "target_field" : "last_name.phonetic",
          "target_value" : "Jones-Smith",
          "input_value" : "Jones",
          "input_matcher" : "simple",
          "input_matcher_params" : { }
        }, {
          "attribute" : "last_name",
          "target_field" : "last_name.phonetic",
          "target_value" : "Jones-Smith",
          "input_value" : "Jones-Smith",
          "input_matcher" : "simple",
          "input_matcher_params" : { }
        }, {
          "attribute" : "last_name",
          "target_field" : "last_name.phonetic",
          "target_value" : "Jones-Smith",
          "input_value" : "Smith",
          "input_matcher" : "simple",
          "input_matcher_params" : { }
        }, {
          "attribute" : "state",
          "target_field" : "state.keyword",
          "target_value" : "DC",
          "input_value" : "DC",
          "input_matcher" : "exact",
          "input_matcher_params" : { }
        }, {
          "attribute" : "street",
          "target_field" : "street.clean",
          "target_value" : "555 Broad St",
          "input_value" : "555 Broad St",
          "input_matcher" : "fuzzy",
          "input_matcher_params" : { }
        } ]
      },
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        "city" : "Washington",
        "email" : "[email protected]",
        "first_name" : "Allison",
        "id" : "12",
        "last_name" : "Jones-Smith",
        "phone" : "",
        "state" : "DC",
        "street" : "555 Broad St"
      }
    }, {
      "_index" : "zentity_tutorial_4_multiple_resolver_resolution",
      "_id" : "13",
      "_hop" : 5,
      "_query" : 0,
      "_attributes" : {
        "city" : [ "Arlington" ],
        "email" : [ "[email protected]" ],
        "first_name" : [ "Allison" ],
        "last_name" : [ "Jones Smith" ],
        "phone" : [ "703-555-5555" ],
        "state" : [ "VA" ],
        "street" : [ "1 Corporate Way" ]
      },
      "_explanation" : {
        "resolvers" : {
          "name_email" : {
            "attributes" : [ "email", "first_name", "last_name" ]
          }
        },
        "matches" : [ {
          "attribute" : "email",
          "target_field" : "email.keyword",
          "target_value" : "[email protected]",
          "input_value" : "[email protected]",
          "input_matcher" : "exact",
          "input_matcher_params" : { }
        }, {
          "attribute" : "first_name",
          "target_field" : "first_name.clean",
          "target_value" : "Allison",
          "input_value" : "Alison",
          "input_matcher" : "fuzzy",
          "input_matcher_params" : { }
        }, {
          "attribute" : "first_name",
          "target_field" : "first_name.clean",
          "target_value" : "Allison",
          "input_value" : "Allison",
          "input_matcher" : "fuzzy",
          "input_matcher_params" : { }
        }, {
          "attribute" : "first_name",
          "target_field" : "first_name.phonetic",
          "target_value" : "Allison",
          "input_value" : "Alison",
          "input_matcher" : "simple",
          "input_matcher_params" : { }
        }, {
          "attribute" : "first_name",
          "target_field" : "first_name.phonetic",
          "target_value" : "Allison",
          "input_value" : "Allison",
          "input_matcher" : "simple",
          "input_matcher_params" : { }
        }, {
          "attribute" : "last_name",
          "target_field" : "last_name.clean",
          "target_value" : "Jones Smith",
          "input_value" : "Jones",
          "input_matcher" : "fuzzy",
          "input_matcher_params" : { }
        }, {
          "attribute" : "last_name",
          "target_field" : "last_name.clean",
          "target_value" : "Jones Smith",
          "input_value" : "Jones-Smith",
          "input_matcher" : "fuzzy",
          "input_matcher_params" : { }
        }, {
          "attribute" : "last_name",
          "target_field" : "last_name.clean",
          "target_value" : "Jones Smith",
          "input_value" : "Smith",
          "input_matcher" : "fuzzy",
          "input_matcher_params" : { }
        }, {
          "attribute" : "last_name",
          "target_field" : "last_name.phonetic",
          "target_value" : "Jones Smith",
          "input_value" : "Joans",
          "input_matcher" : "simple",
          "input_matcher_params" : { }
        }, {
          "attribute" : "last_name",
          "target_field" : "last_name.phonetic",
          "target_value" : "Jones Smith",
          "input_value" : "Jones",
          "input_matcher" : "simple",
          "input_matcher_params" : { }
        }, {
          "attribute" : "last_name",
          "target_field" : "last_name.phonetic",
          "target_value" : "Jones Smith",
          "input_value" : "Jones-Smith",
          "input_matcher" : "simple",
          "input_matcher_params" : { }
        }, {
          "attribute" : "last_name",
          "target_field" : "last_name.phonetic",
          "target_value" : "Jones Smith",
          "input_value" : "Smith",
          "input_matcher" : "simple",
          "input_matcher_params" : { }
        } ]
      },
      "_source" : {
        "city" : "Arlington",
        "email" : "[email protected]",
        "first_name" : "Allison",
        "id" : "13",
        "last_name" : "Jones Smith",
        "phone" : "703-555-5555",
        "state" : "VA",
        "street" : "1 Corporate Way"
      }
    } ]
  }
}

The initial results (hop 0) returned two documents that matched the name_street_city_state resolver. Those documents contained a newly discovered phone number and email address. The first hop (hop 1) used those new attributes to search the index again, this time using the name_phone resolver and the email_phone resolver, which returned two more documents. One of those documents contained a different variant of the first name ("Allison" instead of "Allie"), which then was used to discover more documents in the second hop (hop 2). This iterative process of finding new attributes and submitting searches with those attributes using different resolvers continued until no new documents were returned.

Conclusion

Congratulations! You learned how to resolve an entity using multiple combinations of attributes mapped to multiple fields in a single index. This is a robust way to perform entity resolution on a single index.

The next tutorial will introduce cross index resolution. You will resolve an entity using multiple combinations of multiple attributes mapped to multiple fields across multiple indices.

 

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