Also known as viaf.org
OCLC dataset and service that virtually combines multiple name authority files into a single name authority service
The Virtual International Authority File is a service that brings together multiple name authority files—databases that standardize how names of people, places, and organizations are recorded—into one unified system. This matters because librarians and researchers can use a single tool to find consistent name information across different libraries and institutions worldwide, rather than having to search through separate databases.
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Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).