A method and system for managing associations between entity records. The method includes: identifying a first plurality of entity records in at least one curated database, associations between the first plurality of entity records based on at least one entity attribute and associations between entity attributes of the first plurality of entity records; extracting data records from existing data sources, wherein the data records comprise entity names and entity attributes associated with the entity names; identifying the entity names, and entity attributes corresponding to each of the entity names in each of the extracted data records; clustering the entity names and corresponding entity attributes to create a second plurality of entity records; and identifying associations between the second plurality of entity records based on the identified associations between the first plurality of entity records and/or identified association between entity attributes of the first plurality of entity records.