I don't have any better ideas than combining the different entries together and then cleaning.
I have said before:
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Originally Posted by JimmXinu
Also, I'll tell you the same thing I tell everyone trying to normalize AO3 metadata: it's going to be a lot of work and it's never going to be perfect as long as AO3 allows authors to enter whatever they want.
If AO3 had a mode that displayed the 'canonical' tags instead we could at least leverage the work already done by AO3 'tag wranglers' team. (And no, looking up each tag to find the canonical version isn't feasible; authors routinely put tens or even hundreds of tags on a story.)
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And you are trying to go another step beyond normalization.