# gambit -- An Open Source Name Disambiguation Tool for Version Control Systems

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.05666 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.05666/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 9 Mar 2021.

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [From Commit Message Generation to History-Aware Commit Message Completion](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2308.07655/) (2023)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Name disambiguation is a complex but highly relevant challenge whenever analysing real-world user data, such as data from version control systems. We propose gambit, a rule-based disambiguation tool that only relies on name and email information. We evaluate its performance against two commonly used algorithms with similar characteristics on manually disambiguated ground-truth data from the Gnome GTK project. Our results show that gambit significantly outperforms both algorithms, achieving an F1 score of 0.985.