Automatic contact linking from multiple sources

A method comprising:

• accessing data sources available to a computing device of a device user, said data sources providing data items associated with a plurality of users;
• searching the data items provided by the accessed data sources to identify groups of the data items, wherein one of the identified groups is associated with one of the plurality of users;
• analyzing the identified groups to identify false-positive data items within the identified groups based on a confidence factor for each of the identified groups;
• removing the identified false-positive data items within the identified groups;
• creating, without seeking approval from the device user after removing the identified false-positive data items within the identified groups and without modifying the data items stored by the data sources, contact entries for the identified groups to provide access to the data items associated with the identified groups, wherein a contact entry of the created contact entries is a single representation of the one of the plurality of users, the single representation combining the data items stored in the data sources by automatically linking the data sources without merging the data items from the data sources;
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• providing the created contact entries to the device user;
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• presenting a user interface that allows the device user to unlink one or more existing linked contact entries, representing the one of the plurality of users, from one of the created contact entries and provides suggestions for linking one or more unlinked contact entries having incomplete data to the one of the contact entries, wherein the existing linked contact entries and the one or more unlinked contact entries are displayed in the same user interface.

One or more computer storage media storing computer-executable components, said components comprising:

• an interface component that when executed by at least one processor of a computing device causes the at least one processor to receive, from a device user associated with the computing device, one or more first data items associated with one of a plurality of users;
• an aggregation component that when executed by at least one processor of the computing device causes the at least one processor to search data sources based on the one or more first data items received by the interface component to identify second data items stored by one or more of the data sources;
• a link component that when executed by at least one processor of the computing device causes the at least one processor to:
• define a group including the one or more first data items and the second data items identified by the aggregation component, wherein the defined group is associated with said one of the plurality of users;
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• create, without seeking approval from the device user after defining the group, one contact entry providing read-only access to the one or more first data items and second data items associated with the defined group, the one contact entry further providing suggestions for linking additional data items, wherein the interface component further provides the created contact entry to the device user;
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• a ghosting component that when executed by at least one processor of the computing device causes the at least one processor to receive an annotation from the device user and to store the received annotation without modifying the one or more first data items associated with the defined group and without modifying the second data items associated with the defined group, the received annotation being stored in a writeable contact entry linked to and created based on the one contact entry without storing the annotation in the one contact entry.