Number of qualifications (father/grandfather/ancestor/clan) in
addition to forename required to consider a name citation "fully
qualified"
Assumed typical length of active business life (years)
Assumed typical length of whole life (years)
Intra-document rules:
These rules are applied first, to collapse Persons within a single document.
Collapse partially or fully qualified Persons with same generational
rank in the document, with equal references, in the same document, with
compatible roles for the generational rank.
We consider the generationalRank in considering the roles, since the
primary persons cannot collapse across certain roles, but fathers often can.
Collapse simple references into more qualified references in the same
document, with the same generational rank in the document, and with a
compatible role.
Collapse less qualified references into more qualified references in the
same document, with the same generational rank in the document, and with a
compatible role.
Inter-document rules:
These rules are applied next, to collapse Persons across
documents within a corpus.
Collapse fully qualified and equal references across documents.
Collapse simple references into more qualified names in other
documents.
Collapse less qualified references into more qualified names in
other documents.