Source Scoring for Entity Representation Systems

A method for performing source valuation for a data source considered for inclusion in an entity resolution data graph, the method comprising the steps of:

• constructing a first sample of the data source, wherein the first sample comprises a first subset of records in the data source associated with a dense representation of a localized area;
• constructing a second sample of the data source, wherein the second sample comprises a second subset of records randomly selected from the data source, excluding the first subset of records;
• identifying corresponding relationships between sets of fields in the data source and the data graph;
• passing one or more fields and the identified sets of fields into a profiling process to produce a set of distributions, a set of counts, and a set of examples;
• aggregating the sets of distributions, set of counts, and set of examples into a profiling scorecard;
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• comparing the set of distributions, set of counts, and set of examples to at least one authoritative source distribution to produce a quality score.