# Cognite Entity matching API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/cognite/cognite-entity-matching-api/  
**Provider:** Cognite — https://apis.io/providers/cognite/  
**Base URL:** https://api.cognitedata.com  
**Documentation:** https://api-docs.cognite.com/

Cognite Entity matching API is one of 90 APIs that [Cognite](https://apis.io/providers/cognite/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. Tagged areas include Entity Matching. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification.

The entity matching contextualization endpoints lets you match CDF resources. For example, you can match time series to assets. The model uses similarity between string-fields from the source and the target to find potential matches, for instance the source name and the target name. The exact algorithm may change over time.

## Machine-readable artifacts (1)

- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cognite/refs/heads/main/openapi/cognite-entity-matching-api-openapi.yml

## Other Cognite APIs (12)

- [Cognite Data Fusion API](https://apis.io/apis/cognite/cognite-data-fusion-api/)
- [Cognite 3D Asset Mapping API](https://apis.io/apis/cognite/cognite-3d-asset-mapping-api/)
- [Cognite 3D Files API](https://apis.io/apis/cognite/cognite-3d-files-api/)
- [Cognite 3D Jobs API](https://apis.io/apis/cognite/cognite-3d-jobs-api/)
- [Cognite 3D Model Revisions API](https://apis.io/apis/cognite/cognite-3d-model-revisions-api/)
- [Cognite 3D Models API](https://apis.io/apis/cognite/cognite-3d-models-api/)
- [Cognite Annotations API](https://apis.io/apis/cognite/cognite-annotations-api/)
- [Cognite Assets API](https://apis.io/apis/cognite/cognite-assets-api/)
- [Cognite Connections API](https://apis.io/apis/cognite/cognite-connections-api/)
- [Cognite Containers API](https://apis.io/apis/cognite/cognite-containers-api/)
- [Cognite Data models API](https://apis.io/apis/cognite/cognite-data-models-api/)
- [Cognite Data point subscriptions API](https://apis.io/apis/cognite/cognite-data-point-subscriptions-api/)

## Tags

Entity Matching

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