# Resolve entities

Join / resolve

entity resolution with a trained or probabilistic matching model; reconciliation against an entity service

Page: <https://meridian.online/operations/resolve-entities>

## Status

Not built yet.

arcform does not do this yet. [Its place on the roadmap](https://meridian.online/roadmap#resolve-entities)

arcform has `splink_resolve` for SEC EDGAR companies resolved to GLEIF legal entities.

## Variants

- Match records with a trained model: Score candidate pairs with a trained matching model and give each group of matching records one identifier.
- Reconcile values against an entity service: Match each value to an entity in an external reconciliation service, then accept, review or discard the matches.

## What other tools call it

Meridian's classification; an independent blind rating agreed on 86.2% of 312 rows (exact class, version 2).

- AWS Glue: [`FindIncrementalMatches`](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/glue/latest/dg/aws-glue-api-crawler-pyspark-transforms-findincrementalmatches.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- AWS Glue: [`FindMatches`](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/glue/latest/dg/aws-glue-api-crawler-pyspark-transforms-findmatches.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- AWS Glue: [`Record matching`](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/glue/latest/dg/transforms-record-matching.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- OpenRefine: [`Clear reconciliation data`](https://openrefine.org/docs/manual/reconciling#reconciliation-actions) (read 2026-09-27)
- OpenRefine: [`Copy reconciliation data...`](https://openrefine.org/docs/manual/reconciling#reconciliation-actions) (read 2026-09-27)
- OpenRefine: [`Create a new item for each cell`](https://openrefine.org/docs/manual/reconciling#reconciliation-actions) (read 2026-09-27)
- OpenRefine: [`Create one new item for similar cells`](https://openrefine.org/docs/manual/reconciling#reconciliation-actions) (read 2026-09-27)
- OpenRefine: [`Discard all reconciliation judgments`](https://openrefine.org/docs/manual/reconciling#reconciliation-actions) (read 2026-09-27)
- OpenRefine: [`Match all filtered cells to...`](https://openrefine.org/docs/manual/reconciling#reconciliation-actions) (read 2026-09-27)
- OpenRefine: [`Match each cell to its best candidate`](https://openrefine.org/docs/manual/reconciling#reconciliation-actions) (read 2026-09-27)
- OpenRefine: [`Start reconciling…`](https://openrefine.org/docs/manual/reconciling#getting-started) (read 2026-09-27)
- OpenRefine: [`Use values as identifiers`](https://openrefine.org/docs/manual/reconciling#reconciling-with-unique-identifiers) (read 2026-09-27)
- Talend: [`tMatchIndexPredict`](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/components/8.0/continuous-matching/continuous-matching-component) (read 2026-09-27)
- Talend: [`tMatchPredict`](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/components/8.0/matching-with-machine-learning/matching-with-machine-learning-component) (read 2026-09-27)