Help. My iPhone contact list is a mess.

I use the iPhone's "mail" App to connect to my Outlook, Yahoo mail, Gmail and also sync with my MacBook. Now the address books from all 4 sources are on my iPhone and they are all separate entries. I kind of expected the iPhone "Contacts" would have merged those entries during the import process or at least prompt me to merge them. No, it just silently created a mess for me.
I have heard about some 3rd party apps that will merge contact list entries. I have also heard that some apps are secretly stealing user info without telling their users. So I am shy away from downloading apps to perform tasks that Apple should have done.
Can someone tell me a way to clean up the mess by using Apple's tools alone?
Perhaps I can sync all the entries into my MacBook's Address Book first and do the clean up on the MacBook.
Then from one consolidated source, I can update my Outlook, Yahoo Mail, Gmail and iPhone afterwards.
But does Address Book support a merge function?
Please give me step by step instructions if you know how to do these. (both merging and they redistributing the list)
Thanks.

Yikes! Let's work on getting you down to one copy of each contact, nanalovespopa. How do you back up your contacts? Do you use Backup Assistant Plus, Blackberry Link, an alternate method, or a combination of a few?
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