identificatelike
Identificatelike is a term used in information technology and data science to describe features, tokens, or patterns that resemble identifiers but are not formal identifiers themselves. The word combines identify with the suffix -like to indicate likeness to an identifier. In practice, identificatelike elements can help with record linkage, privacy-preserving analytics, and feature engineering when explicit identifiers are missing, masked, or unreliable.
Key properties include non-guaranteed uniqueness, potential stability across contexts, and suitability for approximate matching. They may
Examples include masked emails or phone numbers that retain recognizable structure, device fingerprints that produce repeatable
Limitations and considerations: identificatelike patterns are not guarantees of identity and should be evaluated with appropriate
See also identifiers, identification, identity resolution, deduplication, biometric identification, feature engineering.