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How do you identify users consistently across sites?

I am working with StackExchange /users/ data and trying to get a user's "united" profile, to see what sites they're active in other than the queried site. As an example: http://stackexchange.com/users/7dee0fe4-9eac-40f4-8521-89ce6916bd66?tab=accounts shows all the active sites for Jeremy Banks. Each user has an "ID" number that is specific to that site, and the same User ID on a different site corresponds to a different user. How do I get that unique user hash (here, "7dee0fe4-9eac-40f4-8521-89ce6916bd66") from the user data? I see the users/{id}/associated method, for API use. Is there any way to get this from the data provided in the data dump, or do I need to write a script to query the API for all of the users?

Thanks!

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