Hi Irene. Thanks for the confirmation. I was thinking if I should create a 
new property for Department and use SHACL rule to populate it with 
concatenated company and department names. Then I can use this new property 
for matching purpose only. Do you think if it would work?

On Tuesday, August 11, 2020 at 11:04:20 AM UTC-4 Irene Polikoff wrote:

> A property you use to find matches for related resources must have unique 
> across all instances of the related class (e.g., Department) in the asset 
> collection you are importing into.
>
> If there is no property that is unique, then property based match will not 
> work.  You need to populate the Department column with the actual URIs of 
> these resources.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Irene
>
> On Aug 11, 2020, at 10:57 AM, Fan Li <lifa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Suppose I am dealing with financial data related to two retail companies 
> "W" and "T" and each of them has a set of departments.
>
> *"W":*
>
>    - Apparel
>    - *Electronics*
>    - Sports
>
> *"T":*
>
>    - Clothes
>    - *Electronics*
>    - Sports & Recreation
>
> As you see, some departments from different companies may have the same 
> name.
>
> I have modeled the companies and the departments as instances of 
> Organizations and OrganizationalUnits and their relations similar to the 
> W3C Organization Ontology (the specific ontology choice probably doesn't 
> matter here).
>
> Now I have the following financial data to import into EDG:
>
> <Annotation 2020-08-11 105105.png>
> I am using the "pattern-based" import strategy and trying to match the 
> company and department entities based on their label. The challenge I am 
> facing is that some department names are ambiguous (e.g. "Electronics") and 
> EDG would, understandably, get it wrong sometimes.
>
> I am asking the community what is the best practice to solve this problem. 
> Thank you!
>
>
>
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