Record linkage/Entity linkage

I have a dataset wherein there are many transactions each associated with a company. The problem is that the dataset contains many labels that refer to the same company. E.g.,

Acme International Inc
Acme International Inc.
Acme Intl Inc
Acme Intl Inc., (Los Angeles)

I am looking for a way to preprocess my data such that all labels for the same company can be normalized to the same label (something like a "probabilistic foreign key"). I think this falls under …

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