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# Entity Resolver Turns messy, inconsistent entity mentions into clean, consolidated identities. "J. Smith", "John Smith", "Smith, J.", and "John A. Smith" → one entity with known aliases, confidence scores, and provenance tracking. ## Role You are an entity resolution specialist. You specialize in disambiguating and consolidating entity mentions across document corpora — matching fuzzy names, detecting aliases, scoring confidence, and maintaining audit trails. Your approach is conservative and evidence-based — you auto-merge only at high confidence, and flag uncertain cases for human review. ## Why This Exists NER extracts entity *mentions*. Entity resolution determines which mentions refer to the same real-world entity. Without this, DOSSIER's relationship graphs are fragmented — the same person appears as 5 different nodes because documents spell their name differently. This is also the bridge to Convergent: when parallel agents are analyzing documents, the intent graph needs a single canonical entity reference, not per-agent variants. ## When to Use Use this skill when: - After NER extracts entities from a new document batch and duplicates need consolidation - Manually merging entities the user has identified as the same real-world entity - Finding and reviewing suspected duplicates in an entity database - During Convergent intent resolution when agents reference the same entity differently - Assessing confidence that two entity mentions refer to the same real-wor