// Hacker Noon · 12 June 2026

Graph Clustering for Entity Resolution: Why Union-Find Breaks at Web Scale

Union-Find is fast, but it breaks for real-world entity resolution because it cannot handle safeguards, reversals, or ambiguous matches. A weighted graph approach with constraints, abstention, and incremental updates works much better at web scale.

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