Author

Steven Renwick

@major-grooves

articles: 16
total claps: 340
top claps: 227
avg read: 5.4 min
active: 2025-01-27 → 2026-08-05

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#entity-resolution ·13 #identity-resolution ·6 #data-science ·3 #data ·3 #us-politics ·2 #privacy ·2 #compliance ·2 #graph-database ·2 #georgia ·1 #voter-fraud ·1

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I deduplicated 53,000 missing-persons reports from Venezuela's earthquake

How the identity-resolution technology banks use for KYC and sanctions screening found 61 missing earthquake victims in hospital beds.

Jul 01, 2026 · 5 min read · 227 claps #venezuela #data-for-good #entity-resolution

I deduplicated 53,000 missing-persons reports from Venezuela's earthquake

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Why Graph Databases Fail at Entity Resolution (And What to Use Instead)

Graph Databases can be powerful tools for Entity Resolution (ER), but frequently run into performance and complexity roadblocks when scaled…

Mar 18, 2026 · 7 min read · 53 claps #knowledge-graph #graph-database #entity-resolution

Why Graph Databases Fail at Entity Resolution (And What to Use Instead)

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Can LLMs be used for Entity Resolution?

With the rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) and their seeming omnipotence, it is perhaps not surprising that one of the most frequent…

Nov 03, 2025 · 6 min read · 49 claps #llm #llm-applications #entity-resolution

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Customer suppression lists

How many HelloFresh accounts do you have?

Mar 10, 2025 · 3 min read · 9 claps #martech #identity-resolution #marketing-technology

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Nobody Reads Eleven Million Files. They Query a Graph.

In early 2015, an anonymous message reached Bastian Obermayer, a reporter at the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung: “Hello. This is John…

Jul 17, 2026 · 7 min read · 2 claps #entity-resolution #panama-papers #graph-database

Nobody Reads Eleven Million Files. They Query a Graph.

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The Same Name Is Not the Same Person

The machinery meant to catch criminals now runs at machine speed. When it confuses a name for a person, it ruins the innocent and waves…

Jul 03, 2026 · 8 min read · 0 claps #entity-resolution #anti-money-laundering #fintech

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The Machine Was Sure It Knew Him

For most of history, a person’s identity was pieced together by other people, who could feel when something did not fit. We have quietly…

Jul 03, 2026 · 7 min read · 0 claps #entity-resolution #artificial-intelligence #identity

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The Morning After the Merger, Nobody Knew Who the Customers Were

You can buy a company’s customers. That is not the same as being able to say who, or how many, they are.

Jul 08, 2026 · 7 min read · 0 claps #entity-resolution #mergers-and-acquisitions #banking

The Morning After the Merger, Nobody Knew Who the Customers Were

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You Cannot Forget Someone You Cannot Find

The right to be forgotten is celebrated as a victory for privacy. It quietly depends on the one capability privacy campaigners trust least.

Jul 08, 2026 · 7 min read · 0 claps #entity-resolution #gdpr #privacy

You Cannot Forget Someone You Cannot Find

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The Day the Government Decided She Was Dead

Adrienne Wells Chapman survived congestive heart failure. The record her government kept of her did not, and every system downstream…

Jul 16, 2026 · 7 min read · 0 claps #identity-resolution #entity-resolution #healthcare-data

The Day the Government Decided She Was Dead

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The Mixed File

A woman in Oregon spent years proving she was not another woman with a similar name and an unlucky set of digits. Her credit file had…

Aug 05, 2026 · 6 min read · 0 claps #entity-resolution #identity-resolution

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SAP Buys Reltio, Salesforce Buys Informatica: Why Big Tech Is Betting on Data Quality for AI

Two of the largest enterprise software companies in the world have now made the same bet: the future of AI depends on clean, connected…

Mar 30, 2026 · 5 min read · 0 claps #master-data-management #sap #salesforce

SAP Buys Reltio, Salesforce Buys Informatica: Why Big Tech Is Betting on Data Quality for AI

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Beyond Vector Databases: How Identity Resolution Powers the Future of Customer-Centric AI

The rapid evolution of embedding technologies has fundamentally transformed how developers build AI applications. What was once the…

Apr 03, 2025 · 4 min read · 0 claps #genai #retrieval-augmented-gen #customer-data-platform

Beyond Vector Databases: How Identity Resolution Powers the Future of Customer-Centric AI

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Monitoring Large Loan Exposure using Graphs and Identity Resolution

One of the biggest risks to banks is over-exposure to individuals, or related groups of individuals, who themselves are over indebted and…

Mar 19, 2025 · 3 min read · 0 claps #identity-resolution #banking-regulation #banking-technology

Monitoring Large Loan Exposure using Graphs and Identity Resolution

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Why do Americans not have a single healthcare number?

It turns out that, as with many things in America, the reason is political rather than practical.

Jan 27, 2025 · 3 min read · 0 claps #healthcare-technology #ron-paul #us-politics

Why do Americans not have a single healthcare number?

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Is Georgia’s Voter Data Clean? We Ran the Numbers.

With the FBI recently raiding the Georgia election election office, we thought it was worth re-visiting our analysis of duplicate voter…

Feb 02, 2026 · 2 min read · 0 claps #georgia #us-politics #voter-fraud