Deduplicate names | Babel Street

Name Deduplication takes a list of names and groups similar names into clusters. Matches across name variations (such as misspellings and nicknames) have multilingual support by using a linguistic, statistically-based system. A threshold parameter determines how much variation between names is permitted in any given cluster. There is a limit of 1000 names per list per call.

Given a list of names as input, the output is a cluster ID for each name. Similar names are given the same cluster ID. The output may then be sorted by cluster ID to group together possible duplicate names.

Request

This endpoint expects an object.

nameslist of objectsOptional

thresholddoubleOptional

Response

resultslist of strings or null

list of cluster IDs

1	curl -X POST https://analytics.babelstreet.com/rest/v1/name-deduplication \
2	-H "X-RosetteAPI-Key: <apiKey>" \
3	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
4	-d '{
5	"names": [
6	{
7	"text": "Joe Smith"
8	},
9	{
10	"text": "Joe Smidge"
11	},
12	{
13	"text": "Alex Black"
14	},
15	{
16	"text": "Joe Smithe"
17	}
18	],
19	"threshold": 0.8
20	}'

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