Patent 11250042 was granted and assigned to Microsoft on February, 2022 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A taxonomy of categories, attributes, and values can be conflated with new data triplets by identifying one or more conflation candidates among the attribute-value pairs within a category of the taxonomy that matches the category of the data triplet, and determining a suitable merge action for conflating the data triplet with each conflation candidate. The task of determining merge actions may be cast as a classification problem, and may be solved by an ensemble classifier.