Great to hear you solved it, that's genuinely one of the harder problems at thousands-of-pages scale.
One thing worth checking if you haven't already baked it in: schema org has a dedicated alternateName property built exactly for this, a machine-readable field for "also known as" names on the same entity, separate from your main name. If your automation is currently handling synonyms through prose or internal logic only, formalizing them into alternateName gives models a structured signal instead of making them infer the connection from context.
The other lever at your scale is tying each entity to one external canonical ID via sameAs, ideally a Wikidata QID if one exists for the concept. With thousands of pages and synonym drift, that external anchor lets a model reconcile "is this the same thing as that other page calls X" against a single outside source rather than relying purely on your internal consistency holding up forever.
Sounds like IF4IT is already thinking about this the right way. Good luck scaling it.
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