research note · 2026-05
Refusing to resolve is a valid result
An entity resolver that always returns a match is lying some of the time. Ours records why it declined.
Resolving a mention in text to a registered company sounds mechanical. It is not. Homonyms, subsidiaries, defunct shops with the same name as active utilities, and foreign filers with non-resident registrations all produce plausible wrong matches.
AeonBridge's resolution runs registry-first: deterministic identifier, then official registry, then geography, then search, then embeddings, behind a corroboration gate. A person is never merged on name similarity. When the gate is not satisfied, the resolver refuses, and the refusal is stored with its reason. Downstream systems see an unresolved actor, not a false one.