Our NO CANDIDATE outcome blog 270

Entity resolution has a habit of looking easier than it is. Two systems return the same famous person, city, company, or work, and people immediately feel the pull of certainty. If Wikidata and Google Knowledge Graph appear to agree, surely that must settle it. In practice, it does not. Agreement between providers can be useful evidence, sometimes very useful, but it is still not proof of identity. That distinction matters a great deal when people use tools built around