18. The computer-implemented method of claim 17 , wherein the received identity record is assigned an explicit relevance score by a user of the entity resolution system.
17. The computer-implemented method of claim 16 , wherein the relevance score assigned to the one or more identity records associated with the first entity provide a quantitative measure of perceived relevance of the identity records to a user of the entity resolution system without requiring any entity alerts to be configured by the user.