# Record Linkage

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> Updated: 2026-05-13T20:57:31.816Z
> Type: glossary
> Category: veri-bilimi-ve-veri-yonetimi
**TLDR:** The process of linking records belonging to the same person, organization, or event across multiple data sources.

<p>Record linkage focuses on determining whether records across different datasets refer to the same entity. It is closely related to entity resolution, but becomes especially prominent in multi-source integration settings. This problem is widespread in healthcare, public-sector, finance, and customer analytics environments. Without strong linkage processes, fragmented data never becomes unified, and enterprise reality remains split across systems. For that reason, record linkage is not just a technical matching task, but a core data integrity problem.</p>