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#22 Case-Insensitive Name Alias Collapsing

Effective date:took effect on
Components affected:Export formats
Announcement:

We are starting deduplicate aliases that differ only in letter-case. If an entity lists several names whose only variation is capitalization (e.g. VLADIMIR PUTIN, Vladimir Putin, vladimir putin), we will keep just the variant closest to title-case (Vladimir Putin) and omit the others.

Why? Reduces noise and file size, and makes downstream matching more intuitive. Scope affected: all exports (CSV, JSON, Senzing) and API responses; you will see fewer aliases. Compatibility: no schema changes, only redundant values are removed. If you relied on the presence of case-only variants, review your unit tests.

We are also removing some invalid name values from the dataset, including names that consist of single-character, non-letter names.