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Truth discovery

Truth discovery (also known as truth finding) is the process of choosing the actual true value for a data item when different data sources provide conflicting information on it.

Applications, Single-truth methods & General principles

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General principles

Source trustworthiness

Single-truth methods

Multi-truth methods

Applications

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Map overview Semantic statistics

Truth discovery

Nodes35
Edges34
Triples18
Avg. degree1.94
Density0.057143
Components1

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Truth discovery

Top relations

related to Source trustworthiness · 5
Truth discovery → At, In, Source, The, This
has application · 4
Truth discovery → Many, PageRank, Truth, Typical
related to General principles · 4
Truth discovery → Many, Nevertheless, The, This
has method · 3
Truth discovery → Below, Due, Most
is a · 1
Truth discovery → last step of a data integration pipeline
related to Single-truth vs multi-truth discovery · 1
Truth discovery → Single-truth

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Important terminology

sources values data methods discovery true truth source trustworthiness item value different provided provide case voting based majority single-truth multi-truth

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Truth discoveryis alast step of a data integration pipeline0.90text
Truth discoveryhas applicationMany0.60section
Truth discoveryhas applicationTypical0.60section
Truth discoveryhas applicationTruth0.60section
Truth discoveryhas applicationPageRank0.60section
Truth discoveryhas methodMost0.60section
Truth discoveryhas methodBelow0.60section
Truth discoveryhas methodDue0.60section
Truth discoveryrelated to General principlesThe0.60section
Truth discoveryrelated to General principlesThis0.60section
Truth discoveryrelated to General principlesMany0.60section
Truth discoveryrelated to General principlesNevertheless0.60section

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