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Cross-System Record Deduplication Strategy

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You're combining records from multiple source systems into a shared data pipeline, and the same real-world entity can appear in different forms across those inputs. Some systems have partial overlap, inconsistent field quality, and no common primary key.

Question

What strategies do you use to deduplicate records when there is no unique identifier across different source systems?