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We are excited to introduce Splink 5, the latest version of the Ministry of Justice's open-source software for linking records across datasets.   Developed to tackle some of government's most complex ...

We are excited to introduce Splink 5, the latest version of the Ministry of Justice's open-source software for linking records across datasets.   Developed to tackle some of government's most complex ...

We are excited to introduce Splink 5, the latest version of the Ministry of Justice's open-source software for linking records across datasets. Developed to tackle some of government's most complex data-linking challenges, Splink has grown into a tool used across the UK public sector and around the world. Across large organisations, information about the same person can be spread across multiple systems, duplicated, incomplete or inconsistent. Connecting those records accurately is essential for delivering better services, better research and better decision-making. That's where Splink comes in. Splink helps organisations identify records that belong to the same person or entity, even when the underlying data is messy or inconsistent. For example, someone's name may be spelled differently across two systems, they may have changed address, or one record may contain a typo. While this might sound like a niche challenge, it is something almost every large organisation encounters. Accurately linking records improves data quality, reduces duplication and helps organisations make better use of their data. That's one reason Splink has seen substantial adoption across the public sector, with more than 22 million downloads and use across at least 10 central government departments and agencies. ### **What Splink 5 brings to the table** Splink 5 is our biggest step forward yet, making it easier to link data at a scale that was previously difficult or impossible for many organisations. The new release can handle substantially larger datasets and is now one of the fastest linkage engines in the world. In our testing, Splink linked a billion records in less than 10 minutes, helping organisations turn vast amounts of data into meaningful insights more quickly than ever Detailed release notes for Splink users can be found here ### **Impact across the justice system** Within the Ministry of Justice, Splink plays a vital role in bringing together information from courts, prisons and probation services. By connecting data that would otherwise remain fragmented across multiple systems, it helps create a more complete understanding of people's interactions with the justice system. The technology powers JustLink and supports the Data First research programme, enabling richer analysis of court outcomes, offending patterns and journeys through the justice system. It also sits at the heart of Core Person Record and is beginning to give frontline prison and probation officers more timely and accurate linked data. ### **A home-grown tool with a global footprint** Built to solve justice-system challenges, Splink is now delivering impact far beyond the Ministry of Justice and is used widely Recent use cases include: The Australian Bureau of Statistics won a public sector award for their work using Splink to build the 2025 National Linkage Spine * University of Cambridge used Splink to perform the first full-count linking of historical English and Welsh censuses (1851-1921) * NHS England has gone live with a new data linkage model using Splink as the core engine for a new probabilistic data linkage service * South Africa's National Cancer Registry and National Health Laboratory Service used Splink to enable population-scale research into cancer incidence and cancer care among people living with HIV ### **Try it out** for yourself Splink 5 is entirely free, open source, and available to anyone right now. What started as a solution to some of the Ministry of Justice's most complex data-linking challenges is now helping organisations across government, academia and beyond connect data with greater accuracy and confidence. * **Learn more:** Visit the Splink documentation to read the release notes and try interactive tutorials directly in your web browser. * **Explore the code:** Check out the project on GitHub. * **Get in touch:** If your team has a data linking challenge, or if you are already using Splink and want to share your experience, we would love to hear from you at DataLinkingTeam@Justice.gov.uk From supporting justice services to enabling research around the world, Splink is helping organisations turn messy data into meaningful connections.

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Performs fast, scalable probabilistic record linkage and deduplication using the Fellegi-Sunter model. Records lacking a shared unique identifier are compared across configurable dimensions using exact, fuzzy, and distance-based comparisons, with model parameters estimated via unsupervised Expectation-Maximization. Multiple SQL backends are supported through 'DBI', including execution via 'DuckDB'. This package is a translation of the Python 'splink' library by Linacre et al. (2022) &lt;<a href="https://doi.org/10.23889%2Fijpds.v7i3.1794" target="_top">doi:10.23889/ijpds.v7i3.1794</a>&gt; into idiomatic R.

Performs fast, scalable probabilistic record linkage and deduplication using the Fellegi-Sunter model. Records lacking a shared unique identifier are compared across configurable dimensions using exact, fuzzy, and distance-based comparisons, with model parameters estimated via unsupervised Expectation-Maximization. Multiple SQL backends are supported through 'DBI', including execution via 'DuckDB'. This package is a translation of the Python 'splink' library by Linacre et al. (2022) &lt;<a href="https://doi.org/10.23889%2Fijpds.v7i3.1794" target="_top">doi:10.23889/ijpds.v7i3.1794</a>&gt; into idiomatic R.

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I got confused about this for longer than I expected. The 2asy.ai news pipeline uses Splink. Company mentions come in with each article batch, Splink runs pairwise comparison against everything already in the registry, clusters form, the registry updates. Usually takes about 90 seconds. Sometimes longer. Nobody is waiting for it. When I started building the ER API, I thought the API would just be a lighter version of that. Call Splink, get a match, return it. The response latency problem hit me within the first day of prototyping. Splink's actual comparison work involves blocking across the full corpus, scoring candidate pairs, then an EM step to calibrate probabilities. On a corpus with a few hundred thousand records, you're looking at seconds of compute, not milliseconds. You can't put that in the path of an HTTP request that someone's polling from their application. So the API compares an incoming name against a pre-computed candidate index and returns the top result above a threshold. That's fast enough. What I didn't think through carefully at the start was what you lose by doing it that way. Splink's EM step sees the full distribution of records together. Some pairs that look ambiguous in isolation are only resolvable in context because the EM algorithm essentially gets to vote across the whole population. The API doesn't have that. Each query is independent. I worked around the latency problem reasonably well. The threshold question has been messier. When a match comes back at 0.71, what should the caller do with that? In the news pipeline I can defer uncertain pairs to a review queue and come back to them. In the API you have to give the caller something. My first attempt was to just return the score and let callers use their own threshold. What I didn't anticipate was that most callers treat any result above their threshold as a hard match, regardless of how close to the threshold it is. The docs now include threshold guidance for different use cases, but I'm still getting questions about this, so I probably haven't described it clearly enough yet. Model retraining is the one I thought about least and arguably got most wrong. I collect labeled pairs continuously and retrain the Splink model for the pipeline every few weeks. Doing the same for the API turned out to be a problem. Even a small retrain shifts match probabilities slightly. If the API returns 0.84 for a query this week and 0.79 for the same query after a retrain, anyone who built automation against the API and didn't read the changelog will notice. I now pin the API to a specific model version and do explicit releases instead. This is more conservative than I'd like, but I don't have a cleaner answer. The 2asy.ai pipeline still uses full Splink batch resolution. The API handles point queries where a caller needs an answer immediately and doesn't have the corpus context to run it themselves. I knew from the start that these were different use cases. What I underestimated was how different the constraints would be. _I build er-api, a multilingual entity resolution service for Korean, Japanese, Chinese, and English corporate data. More at hannune.ai._