Person matching

Whether you are checking that the account owner is rightfully representing the company with the Legal authorization task or you are automatically adding missing UBOs with the Add UBOs from official register task, Ondorse is matching persons in the background.

Can Anderson Paul, with no date of birth, represent a company that has a Paul Thomas Anderson, born on June 26, 1970, listed as a director ?

Unambiguous matches

These are the easy cases. Two persons are an unambiguous match when:

• their first names match, and
• their family names match, and
• their date of birth is coherent

Close matches

In order to reduce false negative matches, Ondorse introduces the refined notion of a close match. This happens when two persons look the same but they are not an unambiguous match.

Two persons are a close match if:

• They are an unambiguous match, or
• When inverting the first names with the last names of the first person, the two persons are an unambiguous match, or
• When splitting the first names correctly, the two persons are an unambiguous match and their birth date is explicit, or
• When splitting the last names correctly, the two persons are an unambiguous match and their birth date is explicit, or
• When removing the middle names (the first part of the last name), the two persons are an unambiguous match

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Your call

Using Ondorse close matching functions is a setting. You can activate it or not.

Examples

• ❌ Paul-Thomas Anderson, with no date of birth, and Paul Thomas Anderson born June 26, 1970 are not the same person
• ✅ Paul-Thomas Anderson, born in June, 1970, and Paul Thomas Anderson born June 26, 1970 are the same person
• ✅ Paul Anderson, with no date of birth, and Paul Thomas Anderson born June 26, 1970 are not the same person
• ❌ Paul Alex Anderson, born June 26, 1970 and Paul Thomas Anderson born June 26, 1970 are not the same person
• ✅ Anderson Paul with no date of birth, and Paul Thomas Anderson born June 26, 1970 are the same person
• ✅ Anderson Paul born in June, 1970, and Paul Thomas Anderson born June 26, 1970 are not the same person
• ❌ Michelle LaVaughn Robinson born January 17, 1964, and Michelle Obama born January 17, 1964 are not the same person
• ✅ Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama born January 17, 1964, and Michelle Obama born January 17, 1964 are the same person