Identify names, identifiers, countries and document context during ingestion.
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Resolve each entity
Match mentions to canonical legal-company records and preserve unresolved or ambiguous states.
03
Enrich the index
Attach registration number, tax ID, jurisdiction, parent context, source and timestamps as metadata.
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Retrieve with entity filters
Use stable identifiers and jurisdiction context to constrain the evidence supplied to the model.
WHAT YOU CAN REVIEW
The record, not just the number.
Fields vary by country and company. VATFind labels absent information instead of inventing a result.
01Canonical company ID
A stable key for connecting documents and records that refer to the same legal entity.
02Entity aliases
Legal and submitted names retained without treating every alias as a separate company.
03Jurisdiction metadata
Country, region and identifier types used as retrieval filters.
04Company attributes
Selected identifiers, status and address fields for enrichment and disambiguation.
05Provenance metadata
Source and retrieval time attached to the entity-resolution result.
READ THE RESULT CORRECTLY
Vector similarity is not company identity.
Embeddings can find semantically similar text but do not reliably distinguish legal entities. Entity resolution should create the identity layer, while the RAG system retains document-level permissions, citations, freshness and relevance controls.