4. The method of claim 3 , further comprising merging database records having hyperspace attribute differences within a predefined criteria to eliminate similar exemplars that are likely to represent a same entity, the merging resulting in a reduced set of database records.
5. The method of claim 4 , further comprising: recalculating the field value weights for the reduced set of database records; and re-clustering the reduced set of records based at least in part on the recalculated field value weights.