19. The system of claim 15 , the name amending component comprising: a decomposition component configured to decompose the first entity name into one or more potential category signals; and a signal comparison component configured to compare respective category signals of the decomposed first entity name against the knowledge base comprising known category signals to identify the first entity category descriptor.
15. A system for matching entity names, comprising: a memory component configured to store a knowledge base comprising entity category descriptors and associated category signals; a name amending component operably coupled with the memory component, and configured to amend an entity name with an entity category descriptor from the knowledge base, amending the entity name with the entity category descriptor comprising at least one of: substituting the entity category descriptor for at least a portion of the entity name or appending the entity category descriptor to the entity name; and a category matching component operably coupled with the name amending component, and configured to determine whether a first entity name matches a second entity name by comparing a first entity category descriptor amended to the first entity name with a second entity category descriptor amended to the second amended entity name.