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Originally Posted by Ephemerality
It doesn't actually do any matching from the X-Ray file unless it's changed recently, so you should be good to use whichever entity you want to keep, change the references to that entity id (in entity_description, entity_exerpt, exerpt, and occurrence).
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Originally Posted by Ephemerality
Yeah, I haven't seen it make a difference so far, unless they've finally started doing something with it. I just set it to be the same as the entity's name and leave it at that.
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I was able to use that advice to merge entities 92 and 708 into 90. I did it manually for the related_entities column in excerpt, but it should be possible to automate that. I think I have a handle on doing the reverse, splitting a single entity that in the original XRAY file erroneously lists multiple people as a single person, but I see no way to automate that.
One other problem that I have run into is that if I do a round trip by dumping the database then making what should be a duplicate db by loading the dump into a new db, the kindle does not recognize that new db as a valid XRAY file. Do you know what might be happening with that?