We have many historical facts still not being properly matched because of ordinary first-name conflicts, such as "Chris" instead of "Christopher." In many cases, the HistoricalFact record and the Person record have matching email or phone, which provides definitive evidence to allow for auto-reconciliation.
This PR tweaks the definitive_matching_person algorithm so that a first_name match is not required if email or birthdate matches.
We have many historical facts still not being properly matched because of ordinary first-name conflicts, such as "Chris" instead of "Christopher." In many cases, the HistoricalFact record and the Person record have matching email or phone, which provides definitive evidence to allow for auto-reconciliation.
This PR tweaks the
definitive_matching_personalgorithm so that a first_name match is not required if email or birthdate matches.