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Described herein are methods, systems and computer program products for entity resolution. Entity resolution, also known as entity matching or record linkage, seeks to identify equivalent data objects between or among datasets. An example method includes creating a deterministic model by defining an entity to be resolved, selecting two datasets for comparison, defining matching predicates for attributes of the datasets to select a set of candidate matches, and defining a precedence rule for the candidate matches to select a subset of the candidate matches. The method includes running the deterministic model on the two datasets. Running the deterministic model includes applying the matching predicates and the precedence rule to data in the datasets that correspond to the attributes. The method also includes applying a cardinality rule to results of the running, and outputting the matching candidates for which the cardinality rule is satisfied.
