AckdbPersonIdentityLink
A durable person key. Values are stored NORMALIZED and are globally UNIQUE per (externalIdType, externalIdValue) — one human per key, which is the structural dedup guarantee. Keys accrete over a career and are never re-pointed (first-writer-wins).
Properties
personIdstringrequiredsourcestringrequiredSource system that asserted this key.
externalIdTypestringrequired`linkedin_url` (canonical anchor), `email_address` (provisional), or a person-scoped id type.
externalIdValuestringrequiredThe normalized value (lowercased email; canonical `linkedin.com/in/<slug>`).
confidencenumberrequiredevidencePayloadIdstring (nullable)raw_payloads.id of the ingest that asserted this key (null for manual writes).
linkedAtstring <date-time>requiredExample
AckdbPersonIdentityLink example
{
"personId": "string",
"source": "emails",
"externalIdType": "linkedin_url",
"externalIdValue": "linkedin.com/in/ellychen",
"confidence": 1,
"evidencePayloadId": "string",
"linkedAt": "1970-01-01T00:00:00.000Z"
}