The Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative is a set of benchmarks for evaluating the performance of ontology alignment systems. In this paper we re-examine the Conference track of the OAEI, with a focus on the degree of agreement between the reference alignments within this track and the opinion of experts. We propose a new version of this benchmark that more closely corresponds to expert opinion and confidence on the matches. The performance of top alignment systems is compared on both

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... ns of the benchmark. Additionally, a general method for crowdsourcing the development of more benchmarks of this type using Amazon's Mechanical Turk is introduced and shown to be scalable, cost-effective and to agree well with expert opinion.