| 摘要 |
A system and method for indexing (34-38) a data record (78) from an information source into a database (58), the database (58) containing a plurality of data records, is provided comprising receiving a data record (152) from an information source (50), the received data record (152) having a predetermined number of fields containing information about a particular entity (56), standardizing (174) and validating (172) the data in the received data record (76). A system and method is also provided for retrieving records that refer to an entity (302) characterized by a specific set of data values (88) by comparing a predetermined number of fields within the data records already in the database, selecting data records already in the database as candidates (306) having data within some of the predetermined fields that is identical to the data in the fields of the received data record, and scoring (308) the candidates (306) to determine data records having information about the same entity (52).
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