System for identifying similarities in record fields

Abstract

A system identifies similarities in data. The system includes a collection of records, a plurality of transform functions, and a cell list structure. Each record in the collection represents an entity and has a list of fields. Data is contained in each field. The plurality of transform functions operates upon the data in each field in each record. The plurality of transform functions generates a set of output values for facilitating comparison of the records and determining whether any of the records represent the same entity. The cell list structure is generated from the output values. The cell list structure has a list of cells for each field and a list of pointers to each cell of the list of cells for each output value generated by the plurality of transform functions.

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